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November 1, 2013
Bangkok, Thailand
"Yes, I believe it is
in the nation's best interest to put all the phone records into a lockbox
that we could search."
-- General Keith B.
Alexander, Director of the NSA, September 2013
These government chimpanzees
are truly amazing.
Despite an interminable
series of embarrassing scandals, they just dig their heels in further.
If they get caught spying on
world leaders, they say it was for national security. If they get caught
spying on citizens, they say it's good for the nation. If they get hauled
in front of Congress, they reject any idea of limiting their power.
There's not a single bit of
remorse.
Just like central bankers who
keep printing money at all costs, these security spooks truly believe
that their actions are righteous... and effective.
(Ironically, this out of
touch, overzealous commitment to their cause is not dissimilar to the
'terrorists' they claim to be fighting.)
And their actions only
suggest a continued assault on our privacy.
But here's the thing-- and
this is good news. They're not terribly competent.
Sure, some of the smartest
people in the world work at the NSA. But anytime you take smart guys and
roll them into a government agency, you end up with a debilitating
bureaucracy and humiliating blunders.
Case in point-- they didn't
properly design their new Utah data center, which is supposed to have
enough storage capacity to archive decades worth of Internet traffic.
But it turned out to be too
much computing power for one building. So the facility has been suffering
a series of electrical fires and explosions, culminating in arcs of flame
shooting across the server rooms.
(They still don't understand
the cause. But who cares, it's just taxpayer money that's being
wasted...)
The NSA's actions... and
incompetence... is creating a sort of new war that will be waged online.
It's a war pitting an
authoritative, out-of-control government against savvy tech rebels who believe
that privacy is a fundamental right.
And it's playing out like the
radar detector electronic warfare did several decades ago.
You remember when cops
started using radar guns to check motorists' speed. Then other companies
created radar detectors to alert drivers if there was a radar gun in the
vicinity.
Then the cops started using
radar detector detectors. The technology kept improving, with each side
trying to stay ahead of the other.
Then, of course, governments
stepped in and passed laws prohibiting radar detectors.
But ultimately the private
sector won. The ubiquity of smart phones and GPS devices means that
motorists can alert each other to police activity through apps like Waze.
The private sector is always
going to win. The profit motive is very powerful. And now there are
strong ethical reasons for doing so as well.
The NSA's entire spy
apparatus can be taken down by a handful of smart, nimble 20-year old
kids and a killer software idea.
You don't need much in the
way of capital or resources to get started in software... which means the
private sector can afford to be much more nimble than the government,
which is enslaved by its slow-moving bureaucracy and committees.
This already appears to be in
the works.
Just a few days ago, the
founders of SilentMail and LavaBit, two secure email providers that
voluntarily discontinued their operations rather than submit to becoming
NSA stooges, announced a new partnership called the Dark Mail Alliance.
Their aim is to create a
universal, secure, open source email platform with robust defenses
against spying. And it will be cross-functional with just about ANY email
provider, automatically creating peer-to-peer encryption via ephemeral
secret keys.
This is a great development
in online privacy. And my bet is that the Dark Mail Alliance will be
launched before the NSA can put the fires out at their new facility in
Utah.
In the meantime, if you want
to learn more about email encryption options, voice calls, chat, and
cloud storage, check out our free report to digital privacy-- How
to Give the NSA the Finger (without them ever knowing).
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