Sorm: Russia Intends To Monitor "All Communications" At Sochi Olympics 193
dryriver writes with this excerpt from The Guardian: "Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show. Russia's powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by competitors or spectators goes unmonitored during the event, according to a dossier compiled by a team of Russian investigative journalists looking into preparations for the 2014 Games. The journalists ... found that major amendments have been made to telephone and Wi-Fi networks in the Black Sea resort to ensure extensive and all-permeating monitoring and filtering of all traffic, using Sorm, Russia's system for intercepting phone and internet communications. Ron Deibert, a professor at the University of Toronto and director of Citizen Lab, which co-operated with the Sochi research, describes the Sorm amendments as "Prism on steroids", referring to the programme used by the NSA in the US and revealed to the Guardian by the whistleblower Edward Snowden."
The NSA does surveillance the correct way. (Score:2, Interesting)
I guess you missed all the leaks which revealed that oversight worked?
I'm amazed at how little snooping of American citizens were going on. There was a number in the press that about 50,000 emails of US citizens were mistakenly collected.
I have 50,000 unread emails in my inbox alone.
So, the NSA's surveillance program is robust enough that, out of 300 million people, they had an oversight margin-of-error of 1 person.
That's it.
This is how a proper government surveillance programs are SUPPOSED to work - filled with both technical and legal checks and balances.
And remember, government surveillance is a good thing. We need to make sure libertarians understand that. Government surveillance enables a stronger government, which is always a good, since a big government is better than a small government.
NOBODY wants a small government. A small government results in Somalia. Everybody wants a strong, socialist government, instead.
A strong, socialist government produces much better results, resulting in a stronger, richer population.
Just look at how Reaganomics destroyed America. It is these Republican principles that caused such economic disparity in America, because they weakened government.
We need to make sure we undo all the work that the Reagan Republicans did.
Re:Monitoring (Score:5, Interesting)
> Just like the US of A.
So if the USA is able to 'monitor everything to stay in power,' why is the government stalemated at the moment? Why does the President have no power? Why, unlike in Russia, are people currently able to publicly oppose their leader with zero consquences?
Curious Canadian wants to know...