Julian Assange: Web Is 'Greatest Spying Machine'

Newser:

The Internet is the "greatest spying machine the world has ever known," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has warned in a speech. While the Web holds great promises of increasing transparency in government operations, it will more likely be used by officials to spy on their own citizens, he told students in a rare public appearance at Cambridge University.

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Comments

[Joseph Zrnchik]

02:45 AM on 03/23/2011

When Iraq illegally invaded Iran and killed 700,000 not only did the US not care, but it provided lethal aid to Saddam in the form of chemical weapons.

Now Gadaffi kills a few thousand rebels and the US and NATO claim Libya must be invaded and Gaddafi stopped. This is the type of hypocrisy and lawlessness the American people are subject to each day by our elites.

Day of Rage in Washington D.C. on 6/30/11

To end criminal government and elite lawlessness

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/499/546/The_American_Revolution_Has_Begun_-_Rage_In_Washington_D.C..html

[Yaply]

01:00 AM on 03/18/2011

1984. It sees into your mind.

[liya]

11:31 PM on 03/17/2011

GEE where have I heard this before?

Cryptome’s John Young: Internet is a “Vast Spying Machine” [VIDEO]
Published December 14, 2010

http://catastrophist.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/john-young-internet-vast-spying-machine/

[liya]

11:26 PM on 03/17/2011

John Young of Cryptome, the web's first leaking website, was the one who originally said the internet is a spying machine. What a plagiarizing twerp.

[bccmeteorites]

11:51 PM on 03/17/2011

That is not a new idea or concept worthy of labeling plagiarism.

[liya]

01:20 AM on 03/20/2011

And who are you to make such a judgment call?

[Genders]

05:56 PM on 03/17/2011

He's absolutely correct. no more secret drop offs, no you just encrypt a message and bury in a video and one one know's it's there, if they think it is, they can't find it. If they find it they can't decrypt it.

[Knowledgeseeker]

02:42 PM on 03/17/2011

scarery

[polishlogician]

04:02 AM on 03/17/2011

color me sentimental...I remember pre-Egypt, pre-Libya, pre-Earthquake, pre-radiation...when this guy was the "big" threat...remember all those lives he put in harm's way...how many were there again?

[AkiraBergman]

02:18 AM on 03/17/2011

No free lunch!

[gdatomic]

01:51 AM on 03/17/2011

Can HuffPost stop caring about what this guy says? It's clear he's a megalomaniac desperate for attention. Even more, the clock ended on his 15 minutes about a month ago.

[polishlogician]

04:04 AM on 03/17/2011

it hurts that he has more fans than you, doesn't it...

[liya]

11:27 PM on 03/17/2011

It hurts to be confronted by the truth, doesn't it?

[liya]

11:27 PM on 03/17/2011

Not only that, but he plagiarized this quote from John Young, who said it pretty much word for word.

[gdatomic]

11:48 PM on 03/17/2011

I think Assange's observation has truth to it. And, it's time for him to leave the stage.

[littlebrowngirl]

11:40 PM on 03/16/2011

Why spy when people give thier information away freely?

[DaneAZ]

09:59 PM on 03/16/2011

Yeah. Just wait until the American Giant Comm. Corporations are finished with it.
Now that they've got their Republican lapdogs to strike down the FCC's powers to enforce net neutrality.
In a couple of years - if you want your website to load in less than a day on people's computers - be prepared to spend THOUSANDS of dollars a month for that "privilege".

What did you THINK they were up to?

[leorangerie]

06:53 PM on 03/16/2011

His comments are interesting, given that he is a thief who uses the internet to steal, with no regard as to innocents in the field who are imperiled by his crimes. Some hero.

[DaneAZ]

10:00 PM on 03/16/2011

Except there's no actual evidence anywhere that's actually happened. Because if there was - the Military industrial corporation owned media outlets (American TV and Radio) would be FILLED with it.

You bought the fake smoke-screen argument.

[polishlogician]

04:05 AM on 03/17/2011

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...double ha.....

[DavidCocoonApp]

06:46 PM on 03/16/2011

It doesn't have to be this way... Online privacy is possible. It's work to do it yourself, and you need to know what you're doing, but it can be done.

Or check out what we have built at getCocoon.com it's truly private browsing. It's not free - well, it is to try it - but it's the free products that you pay for with your privacy. Why trust us? Because we don't have a business if we don't protect your privacy. Read our privacy policy. Let us know what you think.

If you want to do it yourself check out proxies and Tor services - there are pluses and minuses to them but the info is out there.

[themainpoint]

06:19 PM on 03/16/2011

It surely is the greatest spying machine. Not only is it possible to watch what people do online, it is possible to activate the speakers and cameras in their computers and basically be in the same room with them without their knowledge.

And then there are things like "safe browsing cookies" that gotta make one wonder how stupid people really think the public is!

[2tango]

05:06 PM on 03/16/2011

And it is so obvious.