{"id":15168,"date":"2014-03-13T23:17:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15168"},"modified":"2014-03-13T23:17:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T23:17:27","slug":"us-digital-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15168","title":{"rendered":"US Digital Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to laugh when I read this article on the BBC website. Note the graphic which explains it all! Is that all cleared up for you now?<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"BBC explains digital snooping\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 304px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 304\/336;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BBC explains digital snooping\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bbc_snoop.jpg\" width=\"304\" align=\"left\" height=\"336\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be honest. If that graphic really does explain something to you, you really haven\u2019t got a clue what the story is all about, have you?<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note, though, the USA has really given itself a black eye over this. In the <a title=\"Mark Zuckerberg 'confused and frustrated' by US spying\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-26571018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest revelations<\/a>, it created a spoof Facebook server which could deliver malware in order to increase its spying capabilities. This is on top of previous revelations that they had hidden access to Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple servers (amongst others). And all this was on top of the <a title=\"Angela Merkel: Spy claims test US ties with Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-24992485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tapping of Angela Merkel\u2019s phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to the original link, though, you can\u2019t help wonder if you\u2019re missing something when the founder of a company which spies like all get out on its users comes over all sanctimonious when someone spies on him or his organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to laugh when I read this article on the BBC website. Note the graphic which explains it all! Is that all cleared up for you now? Let\u2019s be honest. If that graphic really does explain something to you, you really haven\u2019t got a clue what the story is all about, have you? On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90,87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related","category-news","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}