Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't

New submitter davesays writes "CNN anchors Erin Burnett and Carol Costello have interviewed Former FBI Counterterrorisim specialist Tim Clemente. In the interviews he asserts that all digital communications are recorded and stored. Clemente: 'No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not.' 'All of that stuff' — meaning every telephone conversation Americans have with one another on U.S. soil, with or without a search warrant — 'is being captured as we speak.' 'No digital communication is secure,' by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications — meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like — are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is."

lost email?

[hendrikboom]

Could I ask them to restore that email I accidentally deleted last week?

Re:Jupiter Tape?

[Trepidity]

There was a nice joke about the "inconspicuous" nature of Stasi surveillance:

Q: How can you tell when the Stasi has bugged your apartment?

A: You find an unexplained large cabinet in the apartment, and on the street a trailer with a diesel generator has parked...

Re:Citizen reply.

[Jeremi]

Dear US official; All of my communications are sent via encrypted proxy, and set to stream constantly. The proxy dumps into Tor and a half-dozen other networks.

Dear girlintraining,

We're in ur USB keyboard driver

Recordin all ur passwerds

- lolMIBs

Re:Just how much storage capacity would one requir

[phantomfive]

I don't know, but if you think of it, you're going to need something like the total storage space of everyone else on the internet.

Re:Jupiter Tape?

[tibman]

As long as you're okay with them redacting half of it.