More Secrets on State Surveillance: Exclusive Part 2 With NSA Whistleblower, Targeted Hacker

DemocracyNow.org - In part two of our national broadcast exclusive on the growing domestic surveillance state, we speak with National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney, and two targeted Americans: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras, and hacker Jacob Appelbaum, who has volunteered for WikiLeaks and now works with Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that teaches about internet security. Binney left the NSA after the 9/11 attacks over his concerns about the agency's widespread surveillance of U.S. citizens. He describes how the FBI later raided his home and held him at gunpoint and notes there is still no effective way of monitoring how and what information the NSA is gathering on U.S. citizens, and how that data is being used. To watch part one of our special report, visit http://www.democracynow.org/shows/201...

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[mitch lola]

America is NOT a democracy

[ratatatsquirrel]

Those who would give up Essential Liberty

to purchase a little Temporary Safety,

deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

[Rick Carson]

read 1994 electronic privacy enhancment act then we can talk without faith fealty and honor clouding the discusionit is sad but true the hippies wher right any electronic comms crossing originating or terminating in us repeat all are digitaly stored in 23 cray purchased by us and installed at link points in our system costs offset by tax reductions companies complied at risk of losing charter for operations as regards the us and its protectorates not paranoa fact codified and in place its ok sic

[Rick Carson]

we are strong and these things we will survive for liberty is now loosed in man and nothing can long supress it count on our fellow cannonballs to stay true and cleanup these trends as time passes but search 1994 electronic privacv enhancement act it mandated instalation gave tax credit for costs all electronic com stored for 60 months-omnibus crime bill-echelon =patriot act in that law inadvertantly coincidently and criminaly obtained evidence can be used if the gov isnt targeting ind.cit.

[0rbis2010]

Jacob, most of us law-abiding citizens who find this debate interesting do not own the lines or towers and general infrastructure of the Internet anymore than our parents owned the phone company. Therefore the owners have rights too. Push for lawful change but don't speak like we have an absolute right to reveal state secrets, etc. Chomsky doesn't steal and reveal state secrets but he exercises free speech. Isn't that best until laws are lawfully changed. But child porn has no place here.

[ApolloWasReal]

I'm actually very familiar with TCP/IP, having implemented it in 1986 and participated in a lot of standards-setting. Yes, servers perform logging but Skype, as designed, uses a server only for login authentication. Traffic goes via possible relay nodes and is encrypted end-to-end. Skype does have the drawback of being closed source so we can't really know what it does, but as designed there is no central logging of sessions. It *is* time to replace it with open-source that can be audited.

[Alfred Mayer]

I dont know how your interest or knowldge in IT and electronic communications is, but just let me tell you this: There is no server software out there, that doesn't log communication data. Logging is build-in in all IP- and TCP-related services you might think of. Skype and the like even records (they say "buffer") the video stream. Today an exabyte of datastorage costs nothing compared to the cost in the 1990s.

[Alfred Mayer]

They do not need ISPs. Their switches are already installed at converging points, sending copies of packets to echelon and utah. Its totally naiv to believe that wire-, wifi or satellite communication is by any means "private" between chatting peers. Even the cheapest network switch is able to duplicate a port. I was installing switches in 1997 that collected all communications data via syslog daemon. No problem at all.

[Alfred Mayer]

somehow the amount of views is either manipulated or the americans have no interest in whats happening in their country if it doesnt involve lady gaga.