Big Brother Knows What You've Been Reading

[Chef Ramsay]

Every book you read on your Kindle (or Kindle app) and every word you highlight in those ebooks is recorded by Amazon and may be shared by the bookselling behemoth with the federal government.

The Guardian (U.K.) explains how the agents of the surveillance state are surreptitiously storing all the annotations readers make in electronic copies of books:

Just take a look at the Kindle terms of use. As you wrestle with the rantings of Austria's most lethal watercolourist [Adolf Hitler], your device is providing Amazon with "information related to the Digital Content on your Kindle and Supported Devices and your use of it ... such as last page read and content archiving". It's also reporting back on information "including annotations, bookmarks, notes, highlights, or similar markings", and may be storing those reports on "servers that are located outside the country in which you live" — say hello, China — all so they can "personalise and continually improve your shopping experience," or to "send offers to selected groups of Amazon.co.uk customers on behalf of other businesses", or to, erm, "comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of Amazon.co.uk, our users or others" — oh, hello NSA.

It's not just about Jeff Bezos, of course. Whether you're exploring fascism on your iPad or your Android phone, Big Brother is watching. These kind of concerns tend to raise little more than a shrug around these parts, but you might want to think twice before downloading your electronic copy of Mao's Little Red Book of Guerilla Warfare.


While The Guardian is right to warn readers that the NSA and other watchers employed in the federal government’s Panopticon that their reading lists and highlights are being monitored, it is likely that the wardens in Washington are less concerned with people who read Mein Kampf on the sly or mull over Mao between classes. No, the government is much warier of those who would download and digest the words of those whose writings would elicit doubts about the magnanimity of the central planners and their purported concern for the safety of Americans.

More...http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/20126-big-brother-knows-what-you-ve-been-reading

[lolled]

Thats why we should be downloading torrents

[freedomno1]

Thats why we should be downloading torrents

Well that's why we still go to bookstores
Then they need to do it manually along with your other purchases with Visa

[freedomno1]

Thats why we should be downloading torrents

http://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bittorrent-111210/

The website is down now though.

Well there is always usenet
Or I guess try doing a mega spree
(At least until maidsafe storage and filesharing becomes a possibility and hopefully the hard drives were not compromised)
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

[freedomno1]

Well there is always usenet

http://cryptome.org/2014/09/giganews-fbi.htm

There really isn't any filesharing systems out there that employ strong anonymity. A few projects have started up recently such as Tribler, but they are very alpha and some have huge design flaws the developers seemingly overlooked. If you want to download stuff anonymously, you're kind of SOL until something comes along and establishes itself. There isn't really anything that provides adequate protection right now.

Fair enough even Snowden had a damn hard time doing it
I guess their is technically if you do a Snowden though as long as the ciphers were not compromised
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/truecrypt/

But that route got closed recently too, basically your right everything is being broken into one way or the other being on the bleeding edge has risks but is likely not broken into, or inversely going back to outdated means of sharing to be even more technical we could go into discussions of what data line you can use if you refer to old NSA docs.

Might make for an interesting thread to see what isn't considered compromised

[BitCoinNutJob]

Dont use facebook anymore and want to delete my twitter but find it very handy.  Consider all mainstream non encrypted communication as not private.

[bitcats]

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil. 

[BitMos]

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil. 

bingo! that the best way to raise powerful, fucked, and prosperous "children" in the west... don't forget the all girls belongs to you. but only works if you have a ctrl+p device, otherwise it's just a lame, but astucious attempt at a take over.

[bitcats]

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil. 

bingo! that the best way to raise powerful, fucked, and prosperous "children" in the west... don't forget the all girls belongs to you. but only works if you have a ctrl+p device, otherwise it's just a lame, but astucious attempt at a take over.

If 4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhea, does that mean that 1 enjoys it?