Is the government spying on us through our beloved internet?

[Natobasso]

I've never considered the internet safe or private enough for my personal information. That's why I store very little of it online.

[Draxion]

Another little tidbit on Dan Brown:

Today I watched "The REAL Da Vinci Code" on the Discovery channel, and it turns out Danny boi is the ONLY one who belives in the priory of sion and the holy bloodline...even though people confessed to making up the whole thing in '87 (or some time around then).

He's um...Ugly

[Satcomer]

Originally Posted by fryke

"moving through the world wide web" ? ... ah, well. okay. Maybe with AJAX, that's now possible. Either way, "the government" (I guess you're talking about the US government) probably _does_ spy on you. Be aware.

Um the World Wide web is the ARPANET so it has always had "tools" in it from the get go. I swear kids today have no sense of history. The cold war created the web, does anyone hear remember the year it started? July was always a good month for human steps. They true first network message from point to outside point was in July 1969, the same month man first set foot on the moon. Which was the larger step, the network message or putting a human foot on the moon?

Seriously there is no spying on the net unless you give them a REASON to spy on you. Other than that, they really don't care about you unless YOU give them a reason.

[chemistry_geek]

Is the U.S. Government spying on its citizens?... YES! In more ways than you could possibly imagine. In fact, I'm willing to bet it has profiles on almost everyone, but I don't think that you or I are actively being monitored by people, computers and programs are but I doubt humans get involved unless a terror threat or seriously illegal activity is suspected. I don't go around stealing music, movies, or programs on the internet, so I ave nothing to be concerned about. I don't go around looking for porn either, safe again. All the U.S. Government is going to know about me are the websites I visit, the email I receive and send, and any conversations I have over iChat and Skype, and that I play Halo Demo everyonce in a while.

Understand that the U.S. Goverment is largest employer of mathematicians in the world and the government body that does all the majic the National Security Agency, which has been around for a long, long time, but wasn't publically acknowledged as an existing branch of the government until about 10 or so years ago.

Don't worry, you can't change what the government does, or knows about you. Resistence is futile, you will be assimilated.

[scruffy]

Don't worry, you can't change what the government does, or knows about you. Resistence is futile, you will be assimilated.

That's a pretty bleak view of the state of democracy in the US you have there, Chemistry Geek. Realistic, perhaps, but bleak...

[Draxion]

Here's something...I'm betting I could go to an 18+ forum or site, pretend to be 18 (I'm 15), and not get caught....for NO reason! I mean..they KNOW I'm doing it, but I htink they don't care. Probably because so many horny 12 year olds try to look up teh pr0n and there's nothing we could do about it except shut down the internet...which would be um...*fats*

AND for the record...I think teh pr0n ish borign and useless to human culture--or anyother culture for that matter--and shouldn't be allowed to exist!! O_o;;

[reed]

During the Vietnam War those who were against the war and knew their phones were tapped use to answer: "hello, screw Hoover......" Well, if one is worried about having their E-mails being read by clowns in the State Department or elsewhere, but you have no State secrets to pass on to the enemy, why worry. Say what you think and who cares. What can THEY do? Lower your already cruddy credit rating?