Account Hacking and Cyberspying: Why you?

Account Hacking and Cyberspying: Why you?


Informational/Non-Fiction

It’s all about money, power and the subjugation of you.  The internet is the last ‘wild west’ type frontier and the government wants to tame it.  


Actually that is an understatement, your government wants to control it!   In articles you must read including but not limited to: http://blogs.computerworld.com/20268/gmail_hacked_by_cyber_spies_google_issues_security_warning_for_state_sponsored_attacks, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57472064-501465/yahoos-password-leak-what-you-need-to-know/ and http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/06/opinion/rushkoff-online-monitoring/index.html (Will Your Internet Provider Be Spying On You)


What is also happening now by coincidence is the hacking of email accounts.  Just two days ago The Los Angeles Times and Reuters have reported that Yahoo confirmed that over 400,000 email accounts have been hacked and passwords stolen.  That means someone can access your email and if you use the same password for other accounts, hack them too.  It happened to Google back in April.

Our own government is engaged in cyberwarfare in the name of national defense and counterterrorism.  But the truth is a little darker.  I will not get into details, look those up for yourself but ask the question, why now?  With media and recording corporations like Sony, Warner Bros., Google etc., losing billions of dollars to piracy and the proliferation of international hackers as well as cybercrime, your government is stepping into the internet policing business.

The last major computer scare/virus was to give Microsoft and Apple the excuse to put tracking cookie software in your updates and downloads.  This was done at the request and for the Government, but no one wants to pass up a profit opportunity.  And that means tracking you.  I leave you with a comment in response to a blog entry that sums it all up:

"Since New York Times recently reported that Stuxnet is a US State Sponsored Cyber virus - which if you recall was accidentally released into the wild and affected and attacked innocent end-user machines as collateral damage, and with the ongoing US-Israeli state sponsored cyber warfare weapons of mass destruction 


(operation Olympic Games) including the more recent releases of Duqu and Flame virus.... can Google clarify if through its detailed analysis as well as victim reports if Google will apply the same exacting standards and warn end-users (both in the US and abroad, example: Iranian users) of these domestic (US) state sponsored attacks as well?

Even if Google was to choose to go the higher route, wouldn't this kind of undermining and subterfuge (however unintentional) really go unnoticed by its host nation? Or are exceptions of convenience made in these cases due to the close ties that Google has with the US intelligence agencies and the confirmed but secret and classified collaboration that the Google has with the CIA and NSA in regards to GMail and Google Accounts? No doubt there is a clear conflict of interest going on here. To me this smells more like Google catering to State Sponsored Propaganda than really caring about the security and privacy of their end-users."

You need to contact your Congressperson and let them know that you know about your rights being violated and you want absolute truth about tracking and your internet access and usage rights protected.   If you don’t, one day you will get a visit from the ‘Matrix’ or the Federal Governments version of it.


Right now you can protect yourself by changing passwords every thirty days and keep them on a written log, on a rolodex or on an encrypted file.  If your into downloading movies by torrents, think about doing it on an un-secure network (not your internet connection) on a portable device.  You won't get noticed if you watch your usage.  


RJ