Thank You
ACLU, Mozilla, EFF and everyone on board -- THANK YOU! Please, everyone consider donating even a few pounds, euros or dollars to these organizations, especially you American readers out there!
In response to the recent revelations of massive, secret surveillance programs conducted by the US National Security Agency (NSA), organizations, businesses, and activists across the country are taking action. On Tuesday, Mozilla announced that it has assembled a broad coalition of almost 100 groups and individuals aimed at …
"ACLU, Mozilla, EFF and everyone on board -- THANK YOU! Please, everyone consider donating even a few pounds, euros or dollars to these organizations, especially you American readers out there!"
Why would anyone outside USA be grateful for this?
Hint: The article title is:
Mozilla, ACLU, others join fight against NSA domestic spying
Realistically the ACLU / EFF and others haven't got a shot against the might and secrecy of the NSA. Electronic privacy is dead, and all future rights to liberties and privacy are being systematically crushed. This is where its at, and sadly things can only get worse from here. We've all been lamenting FB and Google spying for advertising dollars, and now this?
I've decided to take a holiday from the internet. At the very least get off the US giants i.e. anything US hosted, assuming that's an option, and migrate back to smaller, local, non-us based services.... Why bother?... For no other reason than making a micro statement....
I'm a fan of the film 'Body of Lies'. Its a much better '007 Bond' for today's world. And although its fiction it has merits in reality in how it shows the perception of terrorists. In short, they perceive us as like fighting enemies from the future. Therefore they retreat away from technology and modern means of communication and return to old school non-electronic guerrilla fighting tactics. I imagine fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan's wars had aspects being fought out this way. If so, who is the US really spying on?