Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris...
by drawkbox on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:26PM
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> Encryption has gotten much easier and more widespread in recent years, and is growing.
When you only have a handful of large ISPs where AT&T has been known to split your data to share with the NSA and authorities, that is dangerous thinking [1].
> Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency that commenced operations in 2003 and was exposed in 2006
That was over a decade ago, I am sure by now they have privilege to lots of that data and technology.
There was a #deletefacebook movement which proves that you can get rid of Facebook and people use it by choice. There cannot be a #deleteISP movement as that is the 'trusted' network gateway you can't route around.
All it takes is scaring people who use ISPs to allow in more monitoring 'for your safety' or 'more data cap space' or 'faster internet' or 'lower costs', they can legally sell that data now so there is an incentive to do these things. There is a reason they lobbied for this right and removal of net neutrality, it wasn't to play nice.
When you only have a handful of large ISPs where AT&T has been known to split your data to share with the NSA and authorities, that is dangerous thinking [1].
> Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency that commenced operations in 2003 and was exposed in 2006
That was over a decade ago, I am sure by now they have privilege to lots of that data and technology.
There was a #deletefacebook movement which proves that you can get rid of Facebook and people use it by choice. There cannot be a #deleteISP movement as that is the 'trusted' network gateway you can't route around.
All it takes is scaring people who use ISPs to allow in more monitoring 'for your safety' or 'more data cap space' or 'faster internet' or 'lower costs', they can legally sell that data now so there is an incentive to do these things. There is a reason they lobbied for this right and removal of net neutrality, it wasn't to play nice.
Hotel wifi like ISPs here we come.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A