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[LuffyZoro]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/snowden-nsa-employees-routinely-pass-around-intercepted-nude-photos/

“You've got young enlisted guys, 18 to 22 years old,” Snowden said. “They've suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility where they now have access to all of your private records. In the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work in any sort of necessary sense. For example, an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising position. But they're extremely attractive.

“So what do they do? They turn around in their chair and show their co-worker. The co-worker says: ‘Hey that's great. Send that to Bill down the way.’ And then Bill sends it to George and George sends it to Tom. And sooner or later this person's whole life has been seen by all of these other people. It's never reported. Nobody ever knows about it because the auditing of these systems is incredibly weak. The fact that your private images, records of your private lives, records of your intimate moments have been taken from your private communications stream from the intended recipient and given to the government without any specific authorization without any specific need is itself a violation of your rights. Why is that in a government database?”

Intercept photos if old.

 

[ronito]

Of course they do.

 

[captive]

imagine all the child porn they've intercepted from teens sexting.

somebody should charge them with possession of child porn.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Dick move.

 

[.GqueB.]

Well... yea. I'd expect nothing less of the average young human being. Look what we do whenever a sex tape is mentioned on this very message board.

The general response isn't "they should give it back...".

 

[Weapxn]

That's not shocking in the slightest. It's basically how the NSA is portrayed on The Good Wife. I'm not saying that I think that show accurately portrays anything. It just makes sense.

 

[Mix Master]

How i imagine it

 

[entremet]

Of course. Not shocked at all.

 

[Slayven]

He must be bottoming out on stuff he got to talk about.

 

[Palette Swap]

Dick move.

It certainly does.

 

[AuthenticM]

imagine all the child porn they've intercepted from teens sexting.

somebody should charge them with possession of child porn.

iseewhatyoudidthere.jpg

 

[Brakke]

Infidel. Bomb. Attack. Kill Americans!!

Spoiler

Ok now I've made that post I'm probably actively tracked by them. Someone PM me your phone number and I'll send you a goatse pic of myself. You put my number on ignore (unless you're into it...) but the NSA gets a new pic of my gaping anus every day.

 

[Paganmoon]

So NSA found /r/gonewild?

 

[Sendero]

Answer from Government: We will open an obscure comission to tighten security so new employees don't have as easy access to your sex photos (until later). Believe!


ie. Not acknowledging this is the ultimate privacy invasion, that has no relationship with the war on whatever-I-invented-this-week, and should be brought to full scrutiny.

 

[UraMallas]

Don't curr. See my D, NSA. See it and bask in it's glory.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

This means they might have seen the pics I sent Bishop.

 

[Mr-Joker]

Please tell me that the UK is out of reach of the NSA.

The only person I want perverting over my naked body would be my future waifu... once I find her.

 

[Mental Atrophy]

Snowden's speculating here.

 

[MUnited83]

But I thought that if you didn't do anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about!

Spoiler

/s

 

[Crisco]

Yup, now he's officially just being an attention whore. The credible revelations stopped months ago.

 

[AstroNut325]

It certainly does.

 

[MisterAnderson]

So this may be an ignorant thing to ask, but is anything being done about the NSA and their system? Or is everyone just not giving a shit? (Are there motions in congress to shut it down, etc.?)

If no one is legitimately doing anything to fight against the NSA, what can be done about it?

 

[IISANDERII]

Wasn't there a story about NSA agents spying on ex-wives, girlfriends etc, wonder what ever came of that.

 

[News Bot]

Yup, now he's officially just being an attention whore. The credible revelations stopped months ago.

Hmm... no.

 

[Tamanon]

Snowden's speculating here.

Yup. There's no auditing, but it routinely happens because of men doing men things!

 

[Darkangel]

The NSA is starting to remind me of Geek Squad.

 

[AuthenticM]

Yup, now he's officially just being an attention whore. The credible revelations stopped months ago.

lol

 

[SimleuqiR]

Of course they do.

If I had the ability I would too.

Who here would not intercept nude images of Scarlet Johansson?

That's the problem when an agency has this much power and the public has no way of policing it.

 

[jamesinclair]

Male-dominated office doing the kinds of things found in many male-dominated offices?

I'm not surprised.

 

[Vyer]

Anyone who uses any kind of non local photo service should also expect this kind of thing. Google, facebook, twitter, icloud, etc. etc. Somewhere down the line if humans are involved someone is going to take a look where they shouldn't.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Every type of industry has this sort of human behaviour in one form or another.

 

[Kinyou]

“They've suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility where they now have access to all of your private records. In the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work in any sort of necessary sense. For example, an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising position. But they're extremely attractive.

Just how extremely attractive are we talking here about?

 

[vas_a_morir]

I wonder what is going to happen to Snowden. He can probably never come back, even though whistle-blowers were said to be protected. He may just end up missing, I fear.

 

[Elfforkusu]

Law abiding citiziens should have nothing to hide, though. That's why we all tatoo our fetishes on our foreheads!

I wonder what is going to happen to Snowden. He can probably never come back, even though whistle-blowers were said to be protected. He may just end up missing, I fear.

Probably depends how soon he can GTFO out of russia. Germany manning up and offering him asylum would be a nice change...

 

[APF]

Snowden's speculating here.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-of-work-nsa-employee-spied-on-ex-girlfriend/

 

[Hunter S.]

What you do not know never hurts you.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

And people will still defend them and call Snowden an asshole for making us aware of this.

 

[Elfforkusu]

Yup. There's no auditing, but it routinely happens because of men doing men things!

Huh? The NSA has literally already admitted this sort of thing happens. They even have a joking name for it (LOVEINT).

Snowden is just editorializing on why it's bad, and how it's unavoidable given that all the data is automatically collected.

 

[Freeman]

That was pretty much guaranteed.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Probably depends how soon he can GTFO out of russia. Germany manning up and offering him asylum would be a nice change...

Obama officially campaigned on the premise that govt whistle-blowers will be rewarded, not punished. I believe it's bigger than him, but he could still pardon him if he felt like it.

 

[OriginofHysteria]

So how do I apply to the NSA?

 

[flaxknuckles]

celebrity sexts

:O

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Well, absolute power something something.

Every type of industry has this sort of human behaviour in one form or another.

Of course there are abuses. That's not the surprising part. It's troubling because no one was ever meant to have this kind of insight over an entire nation's information. It's not within the letter of the law of the Bill of Rights, at all. Isn't it telling that that people 300 years ago thought, "hey, it's probably not a good idea if the government can just ransack through your things whenever they feel like it, you might get some rogue rifling unsupervised through your wife's undergarments, and that just won't do."?

What the NSA is doing is wrong, and Snowden is 100% right to call them out on it.

 

[Escape Goat]

Its like what Britain did when they monitored phones and found out people use phone messaging to send nude photos.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Guess this is good news for voyeurs! They can just email the pics to themselves!

 

[Gr1mLock]

Shocking

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Snowden's speculating here.

Yup. There's no auditing, but it routinely happens because of men doing men things!

Then Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, asked: “You saw instances of that happening?”

“Yeah,” Snowden responded.

“Numerous?”

“It's routine enough, depending on the company that you keep, it could be more or less frequent. These are seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions."

Uh huh.

 

[BloodMoney]

naturally.........

 

[Heretic]

So how do I apply to the NSA?

I'll just send you some of my nudes, buddy.

 

[speculawyer]

And listening in to phone sex was quite common as well.