Privacies we've already lost but just don't know about yet

“Although people like to talk about ‘just’ metadata, metadata is extraordinarily intrusive. As an analyst, I’d prefer to be looking at metadata rather than content because it’s quicker and it’s easier and it doesn’t lie.”

Edward Snowden

https://easycrypt.co/email-privacy-crash-course-part-3-metadata-and-anonymity/

5 Privacies you didn't know you lost, Interesting video from The Corbett Report that manages this serious issue in his usual entertaining fashion. 

Hackers Are Slowly But Surely Vindicating The Conspiracy Theorists

George Soros. His power can only be rivaled by his beauty.

It seems like nearly every day there is a leak or hack that places material into the public domain that was formerly strictly reserved for those of us who wear tin foil hats.

Here is the latest:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-16/soros-hack-reveals-plot-behind-europes-refugee-crisis-media-funding-and-manipulation

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/09/05/conspiracy-theories-are-true/

The Coolest Crime Has Just Been Commited

NSA, we promise to listen to you

I woke up this morning to the sweetest irony I've been exposed to all year.  The NSA (the all seeing, all knowing, big brother department of the US government which has us all in it's cross-hairs globally) has been hacked, they have been spied on and their privacy has been violated!

Their malware is apparently being auctioned off for a small fortune in Bitcoin and without doubt some sort of loud and resounding message is being sent here. 

This is a natural follow up to my post yesterday on censorship I reckon.
http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/so-you-think-censorship-is-not.html

Whoever you are Shadow Brokers, touche, love your work!

Here are some links, pick your poison:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/15/shadow-brokers-claim-to-be-selling-nsa-malware-in-what-could-be-historic-hack/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/08/15/nsa-hacked-shadow-brokers-equation-group-leak/#3452f41577f9
https://www.rt.com/usa/356081-hackers-nsa-spying-tools/
https://medium.com/@msuiche/shadow-brokers-nsa-exploits-of-the-week-3f7e17bdc216#.nukt4y337
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-15/mysterious-group-hacks-nsa
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hackers-claim-have-breached-nsas-elite-cyber-spy-team-auction-stolen-cyberweapons-1576245

The Sprawling NSA headquarters in Maryland & it's 40 000 employees.