You Are Not Safe

I know, my little cherubs, that you like to think that the companies you search with and use for IM protocols aren’t out to get you; however, you’d be wrong. I know, I know! It’s hard to imagine that a company that gives you a free IM client and provides mostly free searching ability wants something from you or wants to sell your information. That’s why I linked this article! Well, that’s why I’m about to link the article.

Someone is going to say it’s for our protection. Right, and that protection comes with a price tag and profit. Please behold the glory of what companies that are providing your communications do with your data:

tsa-screening.zip     TSA Sensitive Screening Doc Redactions Lifted    December 6, 2009 (1.8MB)
att-spy-doc-01.pdf    ATT Lawful Spying Document 1                     December 6, 2009
att-spy-doc-02.zip    ATT Lawful Spying Document 2                     December 6, 2009 (2.9MB)
verizon-spy.pdf       Verizon Lawful Spying Guide                      December 6, 2009
sprint-spy2.pdf       Sprint CALEA Spying Delivery System              December 6, 2009

sprint-spy.zip        Sprint Lawful Spying Guide                       December 5, 2009 (600KB)
voicestream-spy.zip   Voicestream Lawful Spying Guide                  December 5, 2009 (626KB)
yahoo-cryptome.htm    Yahoo Cryptome Messages                          December 5, 2009
opnav-5400-7692.pdf   Navy SERE School Relocates                       December 5, 2009
DA-09-2517A1.pdf      FCC RFC on Circuit-Switched Network to All IP    December 5, 2009

dodi-1300-24.pdf      Wounded and Ill Recovery Coordination Program    December 5, 2009
handbook-10-11.zip    Handbook 10-11 Escalation of Force Afghan FOUO   December 3, 2009 (4.7MB)
fema-usms.pdf         FEMA-US Marshals MOU for Criminal Data           December 3, 2009
yahoo-demand.pdf      Yahoo Demands Takedown of Yahoo Spying Guide     December 2, 2009
spook-wishlist.htm    The Modern Spook's Data Retention Wish List      December 2, 2009

usa-disasters15.htm   Glimpses of America's Man-Made Disasters 15      December 2, 2009
yahoo-spy.pdf         Yahoo Lawful Spying Guide                        December 2, 2009
cox-spy.pdf           Cox Lawful Spying Guide                          December 2, 2009
sbc-ameritech-spy.pdf SBC-Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide                December 2, 2009
sbc-lea-spy.pdf       SBC Lawful Spying Guide                          December 2, 2009

ameritech-spy.pdf     Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide                    December 2, 2009
cingular-spy.pdf      Cingular Lawful Spying Guide                     December 2, 2009
cricket-spy.pdf       Cricket Lawful Spying Guide                      December 2, 2009
nextel-spy.pdf        Nextel Lawful Spying Guide                       December 2, 2009
pactel-spy.pdf        Pacific Telesis Lawful Spying Guide              December 2, 2009

It is _so_ important that you use crypto tools. Encrypt your shit. If you don’t know how, ask me. I’ll point you in the right direction. It doesn’t matter if you “have nothing to hide.” It doesn’t matter. What matters is protecting what you have so that spying becomes too much of a nuisance to bother doing it anymore. You’re not necessarily doing it for you, that’s really a side benefit, you’re doing it for your fellow man that may be too ignorant to bother but shouldn’t have his/her rights violated just because he/she doesn’t know any better.

I’m just sayin’.

On that note:

So like, umm, what time is it. I don't really care, but I'm intrigued.