I always feel like sombody is watching me...
Perhaps I am a bit paranoid, but with the recent NSA "scandals" about warrant-less domestic phone call monitoring, I find the following a bit disturbing.
I was watching the video lecture on networking from Harvard's extension school. In lecture 5 there is mention of using "trace route" to map the exact boxes your web page signal (or e-mail, etc.) goes through. So, I found this site which does it through a web browser.
To my chagrin, I began to notice that almost all of my web searches was going through
Now, I am sure that this is all a coincidence. I mean, DARPA would not have given such a domestic program of internet surveillance such an obvious name. I mean, that would make life a poorly written B movie.
Still, I wonder….
Google, Yahoo! and AltaVista all went through DC.
As for e-mail. My local college account did not go to DC. AOL, though, did. Well, actually
Again, I may just be paranoid. After all, why would the NSA have to go through their own "cage"(a networking term for a secure location—redundant power sources, secure facility, etc.) in order to monitor. They could do that from anywhere. I mean, these guys are smart…right?
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posted by Piss Poor Prof at 9:29 AM
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You'd be damn surprised with what you can learn about surveillance when you write a non fiction book. I ended up purchasing back trace software and after sorting through the proxies and spoofs, and getting some forum support, all I can say is "Cripes".
You gotta believe the hits are overkill. search spectre.net.au and you'll see what I mean.
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