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You're obviously not a master hacker.
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I'll have you know I've hacked several gibsons in my day.

I'm not like snowden, but one time I knew I was getting screwed, so I decided to hack my manager's outlook to get the payroll and when I saw the stupid ass bitch that didnt do shit all day make $5 more an hour I quit.
Same job, before, the bosses were mad that we were looking at the wow forums, so I used firefox to not load the graphics or colors, but was still reading it. The complaints stopped. LOL
 
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taebin_sl said:
You granted yourself access rights to his exchange box, then added the profile in your outlook. I wouldn't call that hacking.
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Much easier, they didn't use exchange, it was just the .pst file. LOL talk about practically leaving the door open for me.

"sorry IT, we don't have the money to give you a raise"

At a much larger company, later, I was called in to a secret meeting dealing with someone who embezzled, and the CEO asked me if I could copy her HD, if I was up to it, and I said sure, I can see everything in the Company anyway, and the President kicked me under the table. LOL I was such an asshole.

Didn't need to hack, the IT manager didn't feel like making a policy for me so he just gave me the keys to everything. ITs weird, you dont go nosing around when they give you all the access, but when they limit you then it seems like something to do.
 
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Black Budget Reveals Major Focus By NSA On Cracking Encryption

U.S. spy network's successes, failures and objectives detailed in 'black budget? summary

.Spending by the CIA has surged past that of every other spy agency, with $14.7 billion in requested funding for 2013. The figure vastly exceeds outside estimates and is nearly 50 percent above that of the National Security Agency, which conducts eavesdropping operations and has long been considered the behemoth of the community.

.The CIA and the NSA have begun aggressive new efforts to hack into foreign computer networks to steal information or sabotage enemy systems, embracing what the budget refers to as "offensive cyber-operations."

.U.S. intelligence officials take an active interest in foes as well as friends. Pakistan is described in detail as an "intractable target," and counterintelligence operations "are strategically focused against [the] priority targets of China, Russia, Iran, Cuba and Israel." The latter is a U.S. ally but has a history of espionage attempts against the United States.
 
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Beef Supreme_sl said:
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_n...es-say?src=a0b

Snowden is Good Will Hunting + Hackers now.
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In their minds using su* is 'hacking'.

EDIT: And Fan, as crazy as you might be... this isn't tinfoil of course. The whole point of capture and keep for encryption is that we all kinda know that there is an endgame.

Eventually the standards we know now are likely to be defeated and the most valuable data at that point is the pre-failure data. Archive the shit out of that and open it later is the watchword at the moment and frankly, if it never pans out... good job while you can get it!

Still, I'll admit my failure publicly again. I simply still do not understand how they are technically capable of storing and properly archiving this much shit. I am jealous. Even if I had the access to the taps, I just don't know what can get the job done and I mean that from a perspective where if one of the largest companies in the world asked it to be done with their telemetry data and such, I'd be at a loss. We struggle to move around petabytes of *very* structured data (internally only too) and making it searchable is the job for fucking extremely expensive specialists that make VP level money. I don't know what the NSA pays but what the fuck? If you can handle hundreds of millions of daily transactions in that multi-[plexed forms and keep it all mineable... you have a skill beyond the enterprise package.
 
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Northerner_sl said:
Still, I'll admit my failure publicly again. I simply still do not understand how they are technically capable of storing and properly archiving this much shit. I am jealous. Even if I had the access to the taps, I just don't know what can get the job done and I mean that from a perspective where if one of the largest companies in the world asked it to be done with their telemetry data and such, I'd be at a loss. We struggle to move around petabytes of *very* structured data (internally only too) and making it searchable is the job for fucking extremely expensive specialists that make VP level money. I don't know what the NSA pays but what the fuck? If you can handle hundreds of millions of daily transactions in that multi-[plexed forms and keep it all mineable... you have a skill beyond the enterprise package.
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From what I've read and pieced together they don't actually store everything, probably for the reasons mentioned, what they do is deep packet scan everything that travels across the sea cables ( or through telecom companies servers) for keywords, and if you match their keywords or pictures or whatever conditions they set, THEN they flag that file for storage, I would venture alot of it in near real time.

so currently they don't STORE everything long term, but the computers do GO THROUGH everything they can and only store what they consider relevant, but of course what they consider relevant is very vague and obtuse. like one article was mentioning they try to keep info on anyone even 3-4 contacts removed from a target, that criteria makes tens of millions of Americans put under than blanket.
 
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fanaskin_sl said:
From what I've read and pieced together they don't actually store everything, probably for the reasons mentioned, what they do is deep packet scan everything that travels across the sea cables ( or through telecom companies servers) for keywords, and if you match their keywords or pictures or whatever conditions they set, THEN they flag that file for storage, I would venture alot of it in near real time.

so currently they don't STORE everything long term, but the computers do GO THROUGH everything they can and only store what they consider relevant, but of course what they consider relevant is very vague and obtuse. like one article was mentioning they try to keep info on anyone even 3-4 contacts removed from a target, that criteria makes tens of millions of Americans put under than blanket.
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Long term, no. Short term, maybe. They aren't scanning for keywords like you frame it here.
 
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Northerner is probably the closest to the mark. They are making giant storage facilities to sit on everything until the ability to sift through the information catches up. At that point, there will likely be a period where they sift through all the existing shit they have been sitting on until they have trimmed it down to what they consider useful. I suspect that everyone is probably going to have their own little file at one of these giant dumping grounds where they store everything from porn surfing to phone activity. I would be shocked if they are actually able to sift through this information in any meaningful way on a large scale, though, at least not yet. Data mining algorithms were a pretty lucrative field before all of this went down, though, so I am sure it won't be long before we hit that point, especially with the crazy jumps in computing power we have seen in the last few years.
 
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Phazael_sl said:
Northerner is probably the closest to the mark. They are making giant storage facilities to sit on everything until the ability to sift through the information catches up. At that point, there will likely be a period where they sift through all the existing shit they have been sitting on until they have trimmed it down to what they consider useful. I suspect that everyone is probably going to have their own little file at one of these giant dumping grounds where they store everything from porn surfing to phone activity. I would be shocked if they are actually able to sift through this information in any meaningful way on a large scale, though, at least not yet. Data mining algorithms were a pretty lucrative field before all of this went down, though, so I am sure it won't be long before we hit that point, especially with the crazy jumps in computing power we have seen in the last few years.
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Would be hilarious if they loaded up a dormant file with some sort of stuxnet variant on it.
 
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Feds Beg NY Times, Pro Publica Not To Reveal That They've Inserted Backdoors Into Internet Encryption

the NY Times coverage has one interesting tidbit not in the Guardian:

Intelligence officials asked The Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read. The news organizations removed some specific facts but decided to publish the article because of the value of a public debate about government actions that weaken the most powerful tools for protecting the privacy of Americans and others.
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Pro Publica, for its part, put up a thorough and detailed explanation for why it chose to publish the story, which is well worth reading:

The story, we believe, is an important one. It shows that the expectations of millions of Internet users regarding the privacy of their electronic communications are mistaken. These expectations guide the practices of private individuals and businesses, most of them innocent of any wrongdoing. The potential for abuse of such extraordinary capabilities for surveillance, including for political purposes, is considerable. The government insists it has put in place checks and balances to limit misuses of this technology. But the question of whether they are effective is far from resolved and is an issue that can only be debated by the people and their elected representatives if the basic facts are revealed.
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NY TIMES ARTICLE

GUARDIAN ARTICLE

PRO PUBLICA ARTICLE
 
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Change motherfucker.

Shame to think this country was founded over a disagreement with petty taxes.
 
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