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Ever since legendary British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell told the world in a 1988 magazine article about ECHELON — a massive, automated surveillance dragnet that indiscriminately intercepted phone and Internet data from communications satellites — Western intelligence officials have refused to acknowledge that it existed.
Despite sporadic continuing press reports, people who complained about the program — which, as Campbell disclosed, automatically searched text-based communications using a dictionary of keywords to flag suspicious content — were routinely dismissed as conspiracy theorists.
There was a thread here some time back that talked about black project mission patches and a lot of them had to do with satellites...
The patches’ relative obscurity changed in 2000, with the launch of a payload known as NROL-11. The mission patch depicted what appeared to be owl eyes peering down at the Earth, where four arrow-shaped vectors, two per orbit, made their way across Africa. Three of the vectors were white, and one was dark. Based solely on studying the design, civilian satellite watcher Ted Molczan hypothesized that the patch showed a failed satellite (the dark vector), and that the newly launched satellite would take its place. Sure enough, after the launch a new satellite appeared just where Molczan predicted. Pearlman, who reported on the story at the time, says that NRO at first told him “no comment” when he contacted them. About 30 minutes later they called him back and asked him not to publish the story. Pearlman told them no dice, and in the end, the NRO spokesman told him that the patches were just morale-builders for those who work on the launches. Whether NRO admits it, though, it seemed that NROL-11’s patch had inadvertently revealed classified details about its payload’s whereabouts, and when the story broke, the patches suddenly appeared on the public’s radar. Although the patches were under more scrutiny than ever before, the agency didn’t flinch. Rather than classify them or discontinue the tradition, NRO ramped up its game. Subsequent designs became even more ridiculous, featuring patriotic gorillas or 16th-century ships, for example. The public ate it up. Some—like the 2013 mission heralded by a giant Earth-eating octopus—sparked their own media frenzies, and rip-offs of the most popular designs popped up for sale online. NRO’s new motto seems to be “better to have a more outlandish design than show actual details about the flight,” Pearlman says.
originally posted by: Elementalist
Now we have on star, windows 10, Google, Facebook, apple, android, every cellphone service provider, pc/laptops, Playstation and Xbox.
All survalliencing capabilities, and spy capabilities.
Human race has become it's own monster. Allowing power/greed to control every other type of human quality, and indivdual lives while making them feel free.
originally posted by: kelbtalfenek
Funny thing is, the chatboxes for personal messaging on MMORPGs are fairly secure from NSA snooping, provided that keywords are used. Who in the NSA is gonna look twice at "We really need to kill this boss." ??
originally posted by: dreamingawake
Ever since legendary British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell told the world in a 1988 magazine article about ECHELON — a massive, automated surveillance dragnet that indiscriminately intercepted phone and Internet data from communications satellites — Western intelligence officials have refused to acknowledge that it existed.
Despite sporadic continuing press reports, people who complained about the program — which, as Campbell disclosed, automatically searched text-based communications using a dictionary of keywords to flag suspicious content — were routinely dismissed as conspiracy theorists.
After 27 Years, Reporter Who Exposed ECHELON Finds Vindication in Snowden Archive
Sharing as it's more of the more important of Snowden's revealings. This was largely dismissed for some time as CT drivel. As well as when people shared Duncan Campbell's info on ECHELON-outside of this site anyway which shared a lot about ECHELON over the years.
Document: 2 page PDF
originally posted by: Elementalist
Now we have on star, windows 10, Google, Facebook, apple, android, every cellphone service provider, pc/laptops, Playstation and Xbox.
All survalliencing capabilities, and spy capabilities.
Human race has become it's own monster. Allowing power/greed to control every other type of human quality, and indivdual lives while making them feel free.