US and UK Hacked Millions of Webcams

[green73]

Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.

GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not.

In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.

Yahoo reacted furiously to the webcam interception when approached by the Guardian. The company denied any prior knowledge of the program, accusing the agencies of "a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy".

GCHQ does not have the technical means to make sure no images of UK or US citizens are collected and stored by the system, and there are no restrictions under UK law to prevent Americans' images being accessed by British analysts without an individual warrant.

The documents also chronicle GCHQ's sustained struggle to keep the large store of sexually explicit imagery collected by Optic Nerve away from the eyes of its staff, though there is little discussion about the privacy implications of storing this material in the first place.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

[Danke]

"Yahoo reacted furiously to the webcam interception when approached by the Guardian."

funny.

[CPUd]

http://i.imgur.com/uPePz62.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/AgwKgrf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tE551xy.jpg

[Anti Federalist]

And people laughed at me when I taped over the camera and drilled out the microphone on my laptop.

Who's laughing now muthafuckers?

[DFF]

These intelligence agencies are not just abusing their technological capabilities, they're abusing the fuck out them.

[Danke]

And people laughed at me when I taped over the camera and drilled out the microphone on my laptop.

Who's laughing now muthafuckers?

We're still listening. Specifically people who have attempted counter measures.


One eg. Laser microphones.

[Anti Federalist]

We're still listening. Specifically people who have attempted counter measures.


One eg. Laser microphones.

You might not be able to recover from what you hear...

Or see.

[Anti Federalist]

We're still listening. Specifically people who have attempted counter measures.


One eg. Laser microphones.

You might not be able to recover from what you hear...

Or see.

[DamianTV]

This is actually extremely important.

We are at a tipping point. A precipice if you will. There are enough morons in this country that would not oppose Govt requiring cameras in peoples homes that it very well may come to pass.

[Anti Federalist]

This is actually extremely important.

We are at a tipping point. A precipice if you will. There are enough morons in this country that would not oppose Govt requiring cameras in peoples homes that it very well may come to pass.

Oppose it?

Boobus will applaud it, demand it in fact.

[enhanced_deficit]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?434839-Hypothetical-Does-thugish-behavior-trickle-down-to-policing-institutions-from-the-top&