Nobody likes it when you go through their stuff…even Google.
Recently a member of Google’s security team had a few @#$#% choice words for the NSA after discovering it had been monitoring Google’s internal data transfers.
So, like any good techies would, Google’s security team has begun encrypting the company’s internal network in order to prevent further surveillance. (You wonder why they are just getting around to this now.)
The NSA’s history of domestic surveillance isn’t exactly news to anyone; but what’s new here is that the NSA wasn’t the only offending culprit.
It was our-dear-tea-drinking-friends-across-the-pond aswell.
A joint program called ”MUSCULAR” run by the NSA and Britain’s GCHQ tapped into both Google and Yahoo’s private networks using a program, ironically enough, called “SERENDIPITY”.
(Oh! Look at these un-encrypted networks we just happened to stumble across; I’m sure no one will mind if we take a look at say…ALL OF NORTH AMERICA’S SEARCH HISTORY.”)
Apparently the information gleaned from “SERENDIPITY” often ended up in President Obama’s daily intelligence brief.
So what we are saying is yes: the President, the Prime Minster, and perhaps even he Queen of England know exactly how many times you watched “What Does the Fox Say?”