Haha, I'll need to be more careful when I Google tactical shooter games
That is pretty messed up but at the same time I get it. The network activity certainly pointed to something suspicious.
I love how we're all so shocked by this NOW. Are North Americans really so naïve?
Several years ago the easiest way to get anyone raided was to hijack their wifi and load their network traffic with kiddie porn among various illegal activities. Did we ever question HOW the government magically knew? No, we were content in believing that an alleged sexual predator was getting his/her comeuppance.
Growing up on this side of the world, we are very much aware that the internet and phones are monitored. It's just common sense. Services provided or permitted by a government are going to be monitored and observed by it. Many a tale have we heard of people having their computers confiscated because the telecom/ISP noted traffic of a pornographic nature on it, or, Heaven-forbid, something contrary to the local politics.
My point is there is no privacy. We have never truly had it nor will we. We lull ourselves into believing that we do in order to live with ourselves.
What do we need that level privacy for anyway? Human rights? As long as I believe no one's watching me take a shit or rub one out I'm content, right? Actually, I don't care, I don't have any shame about bodily function. I live as though I'm in a panopticon anyway, never truly knowing whether I'm being watched or not.
Ever since the Edward Sowden thing started people have been on high-alert about privacy as though violation of privacy JUST STARTED NOW and was absolutely inconceivable prior to that point. It's a problem we've been blissfully ignoring for decades. Of course, from an authoritarian perspective it's a solution to an ancient human problem.
