GCHQ Intercepted Webcam Images of Millions of Yahoo Users 137
An anonymous reader writes with more chilling news from the Snowden files. Quoting the Guardian: "GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not. ... The system, eerily reminiscent of the telescreens evoked in George Orwell's 1984, was used for experiments in automated facial recognition, to monitor GCHQ's existing targets, and to discover new targets of interest. Such searches could be used to try to find terror suspects or criminals making use of multiple, anonymous user IDs."
Remember, friends don't video conference with friends unless they're using SIP and TLS.
Cue the false outrage from Yahoo (Score:4, Informative)
Tor is building an anonymous instant messenger (Score:5, Informative)
"Forget the $16 billion romance between Facebook and WhatsApp. There's a new messaging tool worth watching [dailydot.com].
Tor [torproject.org], the team behind the world's leading online anonymity service, is developing a new anonymous instant messenger client, according to documents [torproject.org] produced at the Tor 2014 Winter Developers Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland."
Re:Were any of them American? (Score:5, Informative)
Look up Echelon.
The USA, the UK and Australia were all legally prevented from domestic spying.
So they agreed to spy on each others citizens and share the results, in 1948. It has never stopped.
The original AT&T supplied call metadata to the government back when 'who knows who' was the worlds largest database.
Re:Chatroulette Failed (Score:2, Informative)
The truth is even funnier.
The porn filter filtered out the faces, which was exactly what they wanted to capture. Brilliant!
Re:Didn't a highschool pricipal do this once? (Score:3, Informative)
Robbins v. Lower Merion School District [wikipedia.org]
The FBI investigated, there was a U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, but in the end the school district spent some money.
WebRTC Solution (Score:5, Informative)