You guys really have no clue. It probably won't ever matter to you guys, or maybe even make a difference in your lives. But shit is serious. Internet belongs to the American people (ok maybe the world), we payed money and the DoD created it as a service to us through our taxes. Private interest (mostly universities at first to be clear and avoid the nerd bullshit )built it and grew it as a public domain. And now its part of our culture.
If you don't give a fuck about how it works. And whats going on. Thats fine. But don't tell me I'm an idiot for seeing all that shit 1st hand. There is no conspiracy. The entire traffic of the web is being archived daily. The government is without any warrents or really courts at all hacking everyones computers and breaking encryption and hacking legitimate projects, both at home and abroad to provide backdoors. The sad thing is they in most cases leave traces and break shit all a long the way. They perform corporate espionage. They've been doing this since Xerox and (probably before) were sending bugged copiers to Russia. Except now its everyone and everywhere.
The Linux kernel itself is at risk to this shit. Linux runs most of the backbone of the web. Your android phones. Tampering been detected in several algorythms and programs. Of course diligent devs fix the security holes and zero days when they pop up. But the NSA/CIA, government, military are actively seeking to keep introducing these issues. Especially in apps like TOR.
Understand when I say they I mean NSA. Military. Darpa. Top level shit. Except most of their work is farmed out to smaller civilian firms which get payed big big money to spend their time cracking peoples routers, and dumping malicious code all over, and filtering and running projects like carnivore. It's a service the government mostly pays for with oversight from the NSA.
There's phone companies who provide VOIP or skype like services that are complete shell companies of governments, both foreign and domestic. And they all work together to trade data on us. Worldwide.
The amount of information available is insane. And the people with the most power and least oversight. Military Industrail Complex, Spies, Criminals, have access to most of it. And they all interact with eachother, use it, and manipulate it.
It's not a conspiracy. It's a career path if your interested.
I think the most sad part of it all is the horrendous amount spent on domestic spying could be spent better elswhere... health, education, civil engineering, police, infrastructure, science, research, just about anywhere would be a better use for it rather than in the pockets of rich powerful fascists. Very little of the data collected proves to be useful at all. Most of it, 99% is white noise. And the 1% that matters only matters in a political sense.
But than you guys don't even want to question your governments management of NASA and top secret information. The deletion of our history and heritage, and destruction of cultures for colonial interest.
The internet shit is just an obvious tip of the iceberg to people who do that shit for a living. Go visit an ATnT telco, its been a hot topic of discussion since before the towers went down.
It's pretty staggering. I've gone through the top secret leaked pdfs that were int he news and been following this shit a lot. I've had many discussions with experts on the internet about it. Shits for real.
I've also noticed how the way the web is accessed has been changed and how google has changed as well. That shit is being manipulated to make it "simpler" and "stupider" and harder to stumble apon the crazy shit.
Search engine quality has gone down dramatically over the years as its been monopolized.... this I'll agree is probably more to do with a monopoly and less to do with government influence.
For instance it use to be much easier to access scientific white papers on Martian spectroscopy. Now the really juicy ones are burried if findable at all.
And uhh... all those chips that get shipped in from china in your stupid ass little wireless routers... hahahahaha
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