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Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 23:39:11 +0100
From: Cal Leeming <cal@...whisper.co.uk>
To: nix@...roxylists.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Facebook

This is the price we pay for convenience and social-ness, I'm afraid.

Best way to combat it? Either don't use it, or make sure that your activity
wouldn't put you in an awkward situation (for example, if you took a crap on
some girls doorstep, then added her on FB randomly)

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:32 PM, <nix@...roxylists.com> wrote:

> Julian Assagne said:
>
> --
> Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever
> been invented. Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about
> people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations
> and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting
> within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook,
> Google, Yahoo – all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces
> for US intelligence. It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an
> interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use.
>
> Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by US intelligence? No,
> it’s not like that. It’s simply that US intelligence is able to bring to
> bear legal and political pressure on them. And it’s costly for them to
> hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone
> should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are
> doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this
> database for them.
> --
>
> Any thoughts on that or is not it quite obvious even? I think everyone
> should stop using that fuckbook.
>
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