" Why is the EFF doing this? Because the EFF, which has been cross-infiltrated by the Tor wannabe spy mentality, faces the same problem other spies like the NSA have faced forever -- how is one to sift through so much traffic... The answer is simple. Encrypted web traffic is a tiny proportion of all web traffic. If a user is encrypting their web traffic -- that traffic is important. If someone really wishes to spy on you, they will target your encrypted traffic first. This is the reason cited by Wikileaks for not offering an email encryption option. This is also the reason Wikileaks harvests Tor exit traffic -- if a file is passed through Tor, it's either child porn or of great importance. This is also the reason Iran targets SSL exclusively (hence Tor, which relies entirely on SSL, having so much trouble in Iran). Why is the EFF so focused on SSL lately? Because that's where the money is. "

Shockingly, Company Not in Business to Facilitate Global Crime Revolution

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"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." -Google

"WikiScanner2 applies Quova's IP geolocation data to tracking anonymous edits in Wikipedia. Once edits are made, Quova data can provide data about the IP address of the editor including the ISP, top-level and second-level domain, city and state. Quova is also able to detect proxies and anonymizers, commonly used to mask location online, to better identify a user."

Pre-infected digital picture frames: "The initial reports of infected frames came from people who had bought them over the holidays from Sam's Club and Best Buy. New reports involve frames sold at Target and Costco"

"Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said gathering more personal data was a key way for Google to expand and the company believes that is the logical extension of its stated mission to organise the world’s information."

"Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance, said people would be able to sit down and type into Google "what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer"."

"So the question is not whether Google will always do the right thing—it hasn’t, and it won’t. It’s whether Google, with its insatiable thirst for your personal data, has become the greatest threat to privacy ever known,"

"In many states, it is legal to hire, fire or promote based on what a company finds out about you in your nonwork world. ... A simple Google search has made uncovering someone's personal life that much easier."

"with the added benefit of having my personal correspondence, my friends, family and contacts, my reading lists, my schedule, my location, and my search history all stored under one roof for easy data mining and subpoena! How, er, convenient."

"But now some college lawyers and professors are warning that one of the most widely used plagiarism-detection services may be trampling on students' copyrights and privacy."

"Parliament plans to debate proposals next month to empower the secret police to eavesdrop on mail, e-mail and phones without any court approval."

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