all think that our online comms are being followed.
Especially if we're Senator Weiner, who had a habit
of sending photos of his eponymous to some chicks.
Anyway, since spies have the tough task of observing
our every motion, because our laptops have cams
and everybody forgets their cam on and their Net
connection on, and their clothes off.
So what are spies to do, but collect our porn
messages to our mistresses. I think I'd do it
out of sheer boredom.
and Yahoo is the worst, as you'll read. Their
software was made for broadcasting, not just
sending from point A to B and back. Enjoy.
paraphrasing Letterman:
top 10 clues that your girlfriend is having an online affair:
4. surfs naked
3. types with one hand only, ever
2.uses a lot of backslash backslash return return
1. smokes afterwards
Here's what the NSA saw:
Of course, the good stuff is cut out because Youtube is your nanny
checkit: Boing
GCHQ spied on millions of Yahoo video chats, harvested sexual images of chatters, compared itself to "Tom Cruise in Minority Report"
Cory Doctorow at 6:54 am Thu, Feb 27, 2014
A stunning new Snowden leak reveals that the UK spy agency GCHQ harvested images and text from millions of Yahoo video chats, including chats in which one or both of the participants was British or American. Between 3 and 11 percent of the chats they intercepted were sexual in nature, and revealing images of thousands of people were captured and displayed to spies. The programme, called OPTIC NERVE, focused on people whose usernames were similar to those of suspects, and ran from at least 2008 until at least 2010. The leak reveals that GCHQ intended to expand the programme to Xbox 360 Kinect cameras and "fairly normal webcam traffic." The programme was part of a facial recognition research effort that GCHQ compared to "Tom Cruise in Minority Report." While the documents do not detail efforts as widescale as those against Yahoo users, one presentation discusses with interest the potential and capabilities of the Xbox 360's Kinect camera, saying it generated "fairly normal webcam traffic" and was being evaluated as part of a wider program. Beyond webcams and consoles, GCHQ and the NSA looked at building more detailed and accurate facial recognition tools, such as iris recognition cameras – "think Tom Cruise in Minority Report", one presentation noted.
Sexually explicit webcam material proved to be a particular problem for GCHQ, as one document delicately put it: "Unfortunately … it would appear that a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person. Also, the fact that the Yahoo software allows more than one person to view a webcam stream without necessarily sending a reciprocal stream means that it appears sometimes to be used for broadcasting pornography."...
