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NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data::Violating Americans’ privacy “not just unethical but illegal,” senator says.
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I’m only disappointed because they BOUGHT my data. I figured they stole it.
Seriously with the budget they have and numerous existing legal holes in the 4th Amendment, they just went and threw money to whoever could and would sell metadata to get every last crumb of information? At what point should the comparisons to the Stasi become incredibly concerning to the average individual?
Didn’t snowden leaks confirm this?
The Snowden leaks proved that the NSA was spying on Americans, but the excuse back then was that it was “just metadata” and since then the narrative has focused on Snowden being in Russia and that therefore he must be a Russian plant and that we should all focus on that instead of the fact that this unconstitutional program exists and that we’re all being spied on by our own government.
I have t read the article yet but followed to Snowden story closely. On the surface, i think the purchase part is different.
In the last interview I saw with him, he mentioned end to end encryption makes a bit of a difference, wonder if this is affected by that?
I bet, if they haven’t already, some of the info stored by sites is how we interact with it. And I bet with AI you can pretty much fingerprint someone based on habits.
So even your alt accounts will know it’s you.
Edit: why do you think Reddit made the big push for their own app? Engagement, time spent looking at a post, how fast you scroll past something, all useful metrics for ad revenue. And we know that ad companies like tracking us.
Any spooky shit comes after the systems are developed for ads.
I don’t think AI is necessary. Reddit was able to find all my alt accounts pretty easily years back. Now I’m banned I can’t even sign up without the new account being banned in a few days for trying to circumvent it.
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LikelySounds to me like an IP and/or MAC address ban (MAC address is tied to motherboards IIRC). I got banned once from one of my old favorite games (PSO2) for mistakenly swapping my vpn mid game. After a lot of troubleshooting and an apartment move in between, a MAC spoofing program is what did the trick.Side note, does lemmy use markdown format? If not, does anyone know what it uses?
MAC address is tied to motherboards IIRC
It isn’t. It’s tied to your network hardware, and can be randomised/changed at will (or at least, the one it sends out can be altered). Some phones do that when connecting, to make it harder to track them, for example.
If you’re using an ethernet port on your motherboard, then it’d be tied to that, but if you’re using Wi-Fi/Ethernet from a Network card, it’ll be connected to the card.
Ah, that makes more sense. I couldn’t remember the specifics but I’ve have always done ethernet on my pc so that checks out for my experience.
Depends, depends. In your case it’s probably about cookies, or IP. Maybe it’s inferred identity, hence why it takes a few days.
Are cookies or IP enough for 90% of people? Yeah. But I’m sure that data is worth less, because they already have tons of data on those folks.
What about the 10% that might be using a VPN? The <1% using tor?
That data could be more valuable because it’s harder to get.
That’s pretty impressive
What’s interesting here is they no longer need to hack and crack devices through loopholes and backdoors schemes.
All the data they need are already collected by private corporations with the pro-active collaboratron of the users themselves (“Click here to agree to the terms and conditions”).
This is why it’s so terrible that you need email for everything and you need a phone number for email and to view a video on youtube and with a VPN you are constantly blocked and captcha’d.
