They psychologically torture and harass people to produce false confessions or force people to do things against their will. Think what happened to Aaron Swartz, but on crack... Chicago, I'm sure is no different... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-polic...
We assume that we are entitled to some sort of protection because we've paid for a service, but that didn't stop these companies from unlawfully participating or turning a blind eye to unwarranted and unrestrained violations of privacy. If you believe some court centered process will protect you from abuse you are sadly mistaken. Of course it is no issue until the fascists come after you....
The fight for privacy has to start at universities. At Georgia Tech, the faculty are routinely involved in unwarranted surveillance and testing out their fundamentally flawed ideas to sell off to the national security apparatus. Such tests I would classify as being human experimentation with a critical need for more transparency with the public. Without a broad education that contains humanities, arts, and ethics we won't get the technical solutions we need that address core societal issues. Instead we have an cancerous culture in engineering that threatens our position among other first world countries. Not all engineers have the same commitment to ethics and unfortunately the most unethical don't have the proper economic incentives for respecting human rights, liberty, and dignity. It's time to take a stand for privacy, against the exploitation of technology, and against unethical human experimentation. Georgia Tech's campus is a good place to start...
You trust them? How do you know this just makes you more suspicious and gives them more of an illogical basis for placing you under increased surveillance.
The biggest problem with MITM is not interception it is potential manipulation. Despite being a clear violation of your constitutional rights we must look beyond this at what is clearly the bigger issue: can we trust the legitimacy of any information encoded into a digital form when organizations such as the NSA and FBI have immense amounts of power to tamper with connections. Evidence can clearly be misrepresented, manipulated, or even planted on unsuspecting Americans by our government or other foreign governments.
I am a target... they were even intercepting my communications yesterday on a phone number I had deactivated. Please stop them before it is too late. The security of the entire world is at stake right now.
They do. In fact, there goal is to find fresh college grads who are just good enough to potentially get hired in these firms then send them into the firms as spies.
What is problematic here is that the legitimacy of almost all information exchanged in a digital form has been lost almost entirely. How much longer must we presume ignorance in what is really happening? How much longer will the innocent be bullied through technological and psychological means to promote the interests of the current national security apparatus with interests entirely different than the rest of America/World? What happened to Aaron Swartz is only a taste of what is happening to the rest of us who believe these types of activities are unethical and a violation of constitutional law. Do we honestly believe that this isn't being used for insider trading, to capture sensitive medical information, and steal other trade secrets that should be protected by law? Wake up America. We need to stand up against this digital tyranny.