Thought Provoking Article......

News Flash. It doesn't matter what you use or what OS it is using, Windows, Linux, Android or iOS to access the internet . The NSA has access to all of it, and landline and cell phone traffic as well.

 If that bothers you, you need to leave the planet. At least for now, they aren't in space.

Think he forgot to link the actual article, or it was stolen by the NSA 

The OP had a thought......and it died of loneliness.

Here's the link..............  http://www.freeyourselffrommicrosoftandthensa.org/

I think people should not assume things, just read it if they choose to before making up their mind.

Though one person has a good point, that there's no way to escape the spying...........oh well. At least I can attempt to minimize it

as much as possible. I intend to use Linux for Internet Searches. Ixquick and Startpage.com are good search engines that appear to have 

more privacy than Google, though some may feel that that's debatable.

I wouldn't trust those places to be any more secure than anything else.  Anyone can claim to have all this security and privacy, but nothing to back their claims up with.

I made it work for you ...;)

I love a good conspiracy theory cos it's an excuse to draw my blackout curtains, don my thermal imaging reflective suit and break out my tinfoil hat, but the stuff of this artice, if all true, is quite scary stuff.... especially if the Nasty Spy Agency [NSA] has access to my one and only sex tape. It's not like it's that graphic or anything, but I shudder the think that the NSA could release it to the WWW and users worldwide would see my pimply arse.

The thing is, if the NSA has had a backdoor into peoples computers since 1998, what has significantly changed that people should fear it more? Yes, technology has evolved and become more sophisticated, which could lend itself to enhanced prying into private domains, but does this place ordinary folk with nothing to hide at greater risk of stormtroopers kicking in their front doors? 

In other words, if you not had a problem arise from your computer usage since 1998, and you've done nothing in the interim to raise any red flags, it's most likely that you'll never be bothered by the NSA regarding issues of national security, etc.  Still, it doesn't make what they're doing right, does it!  Given the NSA has spanned several presidents and both sides of the political fence, it could almost seem that it operates autonomously of government and is accountable to nobody but itself. 

If that were the case I'd be very worried about living under its jurisdiction, never knowing how far it will go, how low it will stoop to 'enforce' national security... and given that it has extended its jurisdiction to pry into and/or infect non-US computers, has the NSA overstepped its authority and become something the whole world needs to fear?

I've said a few things in response to certain articles I've read that in other countries would guarantee a visit by the 'secret police'. So far however I've not been visited by anyone and I'm pretty sure my comments have been seen by more than just other readers. Google for example has revised its policies yet again by admitting that they will scan your emails. Let them scan mine for all the good it will do. Everyone who knows me also knows I have no love for the government as it stands to date. Haven't had any since since the sixties when they got us involved in Viet Nam. It took them twenty years to finally admit it was a mistake. That's much too long a time IMO. 

Yes, 20 years was way too long for the U$A to admit its error in going to Vietnam, and its lying about the phony Gulf of Tonkin "incident."  .  My concern is that if you go to the official FBI website and look up the protests against the process used to 'adopt' agreements like the NAFTA, and most recently, the pacific one held in Seattle /forget name/ all the protestors are labelled 'terrorists.' Yes, a few did some damage to some stores.  True.  The AFL-CIO had a chapter participate in this mass protest demanding a redress of grievances.  All are 'terrorists' according to the FBI.  And some folks actually believe this XXXX.  Honest citizens exercising their constitutional rights to seek a redress of grievances are labeled "terrorists."  So, if you are not doing anything wrong, and have nothing to hide,  the NSA won't bother you.  This is so true, as long as you comply with the NSA's definition of 'wrong' and 'have nothing to hide.'  I suppose the NSA is more lax than the FBI?  Yes, the steel glove is wrapped in a thicker swath of velvet here than it is in some other countries.  But the hand is still made of steel.  And that is antithetical to a free people exercising their freedoms even when it is inconvenient to the people in power. 

Given the present state of affairs I give this world maybe another five years, ten at the most, before the doomsday clock ticks midnight. With that jerky wannabe in Russia and the one in DC going at it over someone else's turf......

 And when will it ever officially admit that it lied to go to war in Iraq?  Will the US government ever officially apologise for the lies that got other countries involved to do its dirty work?  Will it ever officially apologise to the families and fairly compensate them for all those who didn't make it home, based on a lie?

How much truth there is to it I don't know, but there were reports/rumours that the FBI had plants in some of the protester crowds, people trying to incite them to violence and not protest peacefully.  It was on one of the current affair shows on TV some months back, and a couple of 'so-called' insiders were blowing the whistle because they were so disgusted in their own agency.  So-called witnesses were also interviewed, with one saying that when a man beside him was knocked down in a scuffle, his FBI badge supposedly fell out of his pocket.... like he was that stupid?

Truth is, such shows and newspapers are known to have paid for scripted interviews with witnesses, insiders and the like, so I do question the veracity of the segment, but at the same time, there's always that saying "where there's smoke there's fire"

In any event, governments around the world are seeking to grab more power and control over citizens, and everyday people are losing more and more rights with each passing year.  I have been watching with great interest what the Abbott government is doing here in Australia regarding its 1st budget later this month.  A panel of former businessmen were employed to find extensive custs in government expenditure, and according to the document released, plus various leaks, several thousands of Aussie families will be living below the poverty line by so much that we will have a 3rd world nation within a nation... and I wonder how many beatings and deaths will occur as a result of protests against the savage cuts proposed.