Official government of Beijing in China, that is one of the most populated cities on the planet, will soon begin to track the everyday movements of all 17 million people living there by tracking their mobile phone locations. Government has offered a new program intended to help minimize traffic congestion by furnishing the detailed information on citizens’ movements around the Beijing.

The plan, named “Information Platform of Realtime Citizen Movement,” will utilize a person’s mobile phone, local cell phone towers, and GPS tracking module that has become the standard module of almost all of modern smartphones. Every mobile phone will transmit GPS information to servers which will give authorities unprecedented volumes of data on any person’s current whereabouts and their movement trajectory within the Beijing area.

Critics of this plan are saying that it is another poorly masked effort of the government to limit personal movements, and also to prevent huge crowds from being formed on the streets. Their opponents are claiming that this data would give law enforcement agencies an accurate map of where big groups of people are gathering allowing government to send urgent reinforcements to public protest locations.

In accordance with Chen Derong, the respectable professor of the Wireless Communications at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, that mobile phone tracking system isn’t intended to watch traffic. He said that monitoring traffic does not demand tracking movements of separate persons.

“We are discussing two absolutely different ideas. Cell phone positioning is the matter of individual privacy. If you wish to know about that stream of traffic, you ought to install video cameras at the crossroads,” he said on this matter. “Why should they ever know anything as individual as my current whereabouts just to prevent traffic jams or some things like that? Traffic stream and location tracking are as unsuitable as if you put the mouth of any horse right on the head of a bull.”

Critics are also claiming that this plan to track all movements of Beijing population is an answer to the big protest throughout China that happened in 2011 and was successfully mobilized by means of social media. In accordance with report of The New York Times, that protest was intended to call people to real action by bolstering them to cry out loud, “We wish food, we wish jobs, we wish houses, we wish fairness,” in the jazzy attempt to use the popular dissatisfaction over inflation and real estate prices going higher and higher.

This occasion, along with progressively increasing domestic turmoil due to the mass protests moving swiftly across the Middle Eastern countries, has led to turmoil amongst Chinese government. The authorities have caught activists, putting more than 80 under house arrest and others have simply gone missing since then.

This tracking plan was offered by Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and officials are avoiding any mentions of utilizing the system as some tool of the crackdown. The official within Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Li Guoguang, says that the program would grant “information of the population dispersion and movements around the city with unbelievable precision.” The program has supposedly been created in co-operation with the China Mobile that is a mobile phone provider owned by the Chinese government.

Li has calculated that 70% of Beijing’s citizens carry a mobile phone, giving their government the ability to track all movements of 17 million people with high precision. So if you live in Beijing or planning to visit it and use local cell phone, you might think of keeping your location private. To make it real you can prevent Beijing government tracking your smartphone leaving your location privacy in condition that it must always be.

In any way, the cases of government tracking similar to this are continue to happen again and again (like the last one in Egypt), so don’t forget to protect your privacy and leave a comment on this issue.

Yep, the list of countries which spy on their citizens added one more country – Egypt. Their main telecommunication company called Telecom Egypt that is owned by the Egypt government has the ability to monitor web traffic and cell phone data. And all this they can do with the help of American equipment.

The American company from California called Narus develops and sells different surveillance equipment that allows telecommunication companies to monitor the data that goes through their network in real time. With such equipment Telecom Egypt can monitor, track and target all web content from any internet user of their network. They also can record anything from that amount of data, reconstruct any selected e-mail with its attachments, replay any VoIP call and even discover full browsing history with all pages being clicked.

Technology that allows such data recording and manipulation is called Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). There are many companies which manufacture such telecommunication surveillance equipment in USA, Canada, Israel and many other countries. They sell their surveillance equipment to many countries of the world, allowing their governments to effortlessly establish nation-wide surveillance and spy on their citizens through the telecommunication networks like internet or mobile phones.

So now to the list of the countries spying on their citizens that already includes United Kingdom, India, USA and Iran (and there is also some information that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are also customers of Narus) you can add Egypt for sure. Their primary telecommunication company has joined the ranks of the world telecoms which inspect all data from all their users and thus spy on all of them without any qualms of conscience.

If you are living in Egypt, you are probably not very happy to discover such information about your country’s biggest telecom operator. Still I guess you would like to prevent Egypt government from spying on you using your mobile phone and internet connection for that, right?

Leave your thoughts about it in the comments.

Location-based services market is a quickly growing market that will grow to more than $8 billion in 2014. It includes not only common outdoor GPS tracking, but also rapidly advancing indoor tracking that has been developed by many different companies in various shapes and with different technologies being used for it. So let us describe you some examples which will show you how developed indoor tracking is.

While you walk through the store, mall or other public place, your smartphone leaves so called digital breadcrumbs, and different systems collect and record them. This technology is called wireless fingerprinting. As a rule it is used with Wi-Fi frequency band, but other wireless frequencies might be used as well. For example, Homeland Security uses this type of tracking which they call GLANSER. This technology is quite interesting to FBI because it allows tracking people in places like indoor and even underground locations where GPS signal is not available.

Qubulus created another technology called QPS Positioning Engine. Their technology uses Radio Fingerprinting because every spot on the planet has unique combination of radio waves and thus it is unique by itself. This system can specify your location up to three meters sharp, be it outdoor or indoor place. And, of course, this technology uses all available frequency ranges for its operation.

Scottish company Sensewhere has taken another path. Considering the fact that Cell-ID technology has precision of about 300 meters and Wi-Fi location finding has around 80 meters in accuracy, they have created something new. Along with those two technologies their server pings the location of all those smartphones together and in movement, creating more precise picture (up to 5 meters) of locations of all those devices within particular building.

The company called CSR created their SiRFstarV microchip that can use all available sources of location tracking data to determine indoor and outdoor location with high precision (up to 10 meters). In the similar way Broadcom developed their BCM4752 microchip that can find the location of your smartphone outdoors, indoors and even underground, discovering not only location by itself but also the floor or elevation you are currently at. The precision of their microchip is the best among all others at the market, resulting in few centimeters accuracy.

Are you happy to discover such tracking possibility? Or maybe you are scared of being constantly tracked in any of those ways? If that is true then you can prevent your smartphone from tracking you everywhere and keep your location privacy safe in that way.

Oh, and don’t forget to leave the comment on this matter.

Modern world is so full of technology that sometimes we don’t even notice its presence. Still we are surrounded by many sensors, microchips and other small things which take part in our life. And one type of them is a combination of passive and active tracking technologies which you should know about.

Number 1: GPS

GPS technology is commonly used for navigation and tracking purposes. It is a satellite positioning system used by the USA. Together with other satellite navigation systems like Russian GLONASS, European Galileo, Chinese Compass and Japanese QZSS (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System) it is a powerful tool for precise (up to 1 centimeter) outdoor tracking, but it loses its magical power indoors and sometimes even in huge cities.

Number 2: Assisted GPS

Assisted GPS, or A-GPS, is the advanced version of GPS tracking. It is used to make GPS navigation work much faster. The main principle of this system is to use cell phone tower triangulation to determine the location of the smartphone in certain area and then use GPS satellites to determine it more precisely in that area.

Number 3: Synthetic GPS

This technology may be considered as the variation of the A-GPS that is also used to make the location finding job much faster, but it cannot improve the precision of the location tracking. Using cell phone or wireless internet network this system sends the data about future satellite locations and stores them in cache of the smartphone. Using these data your smartphone will determine the location in about 2 seconds.

Number 4: Cell ID

This technology allows mobile phone carriers to determine the location of your smartphone even without GPS module in it. This system uses the IDs of your smartphone and cell phone towers surrounding it to determine its location between three or more towers around. Although it is not as precise as GPS in the open areas, in urban environment it can give even more accuracy than GPS tracking because there are many short-range cell phone towers in the city and GPS navigation has weaker signal there.

Number 5: Wi-Fi

The similar thing can be done using Wi-Fi connection. In fact, there are two ways Wi-Fi can track your location. The first one is called RSSI. It uses Wi-Fi hotspots and their database to track your location between them (like Cell ID technology does with cell phone towers) with tens of meters of precision. The second way is called wireless fingerprinting. It records the fingerprint of the certain place, recording your location there during the first visit. When you go there again, the system will recognize you and be able to determine your location within few meters of accuracy.

Number 6: Inertial Sensors

Probably every smartphone has those sensors inside: magnetometer (or compass), accelerometer and gyroscope. Compass can determine the direction of your movement, accelerometer measures your speed and gyroscope monitors your turning actions. While they can work only few minutes, in combination with other tracking systems they can be very handy. For example, when you drive through the tunnel, ordinary tracking systems cannot reach you and while you are there, your location will be tracked by those sensors until you go to the tunnel exit where GPS tracking will pick you up.

Number 7: Barometer

While this tool is not of much use by itself, with some calibration and previously uploaded data about local weather it can determine the elevation level and even floor you are at quite precisely. Although its data can be affected by air conditioning and heating systems, barometer is very useful instrument for indoor tracking together with other ones.

Number 8: Short-Range Signals

Many government facilities and other high-security locations are using badges with RFID chips and hundreds of sensors inside the buildings to determine where particular person is. The other short-range signal technology that spread nowadays is the NFC (near-field communications). It is embedded in many different smartphones and used not only for payments but also to help indoor tracking become even more precise.

Number 9: Bluetooth Beacons

Some retail stores have started to use this technology to know precisely where the customer is and what goods he or she interested in. The accuracy of this tracking system is 10 centimeters. Its work is similar to the Wi-Fi fingerprinting but it uses the net of Bluetooth beacons across the store and Bluetooth 4.0 connection of your smartphone to locate you inside the store.

Number 10: Terrestrial Transmitters

I guess this is a real future of the tracking. Companies like Locata and NextNav have already started to develop it. They will use a combination of GPS satellites with ground-based transmitters which will allow 2 inch precise tracking to be available both outdoors and indoors. The Locata’s technology uses 2.4GHz frequency band (the same as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) and NextNav’s technology relies on 900MHz band used by many modern cell phones and they plan to build a ring of their transmitters around each city.

Impressed?

So you can clearly see that tracking technologies are developing very quickly and soon there will be no place where you can be untraceable. Still there is a way to secure your location even from such advanced tracking technologies. Wherever you will be you can prevent your smartphone from discovering your location by any of the means described above at once and for good.

Chinese company that specializes on telecommunication equipment sold a package of advanced surveillance equipment that works as a system and can easily monitor different activities of communications users like landline and mobile communications, internet traffic, short messages, e-mails and even track the locations of mobile phones using their embedded navigation microchips.

According to the documents and many interviews, Chinese second largest telecommunication equipment provider ZTE Corp sold Iranian TCI (Telecommunication Company of Iran) many different systems and equipment as part of the $130.6 million contract. Both ZTE and TCI are government owned or controlled companies and their collaborative agreements are obvious. Still President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tried to defend this deal at the Supreme Council of Cyberspace saying that this new equipment used by TCI will protect Iranian people from internet evils.

Mahmoud Tadjallimehr, the former telecommunications project manager from Iran that has worked in European and Chinese telecommunication companies said that those systems purchased by Telecommunication Company of Iran is much more complex than ordinary equipment used in this industry. He expects that this advanced equipment is able to access the voice calls, SMS messages, e-mails, chat and other types of communication activity.

Now let’s look from the other side. It is not a secret at all that ZTE is working not only at telecommunications market but at surveillance market too. Its subsidiary company called ZTE Special Equipment Co. (ZTEsec) is a specialized manufacturer of surveillance and security systems. In addition it is often co-sponsors the ISS World, an international trade show where different companies are selling their systems and equipment to governmental and law-enforcement agencies.

There are also some rumors about Iran purchasing surveillance equipment not only manufactured by China but also advanced American surveillance equipment through the Chinese company. All this allows Iranian government to easily spy on all its citizens in many ways. So if you live in Iran then you would probably want to protect yourself from this governmental control, right? Although you cannot prevent your landlines from being eavesdropped you can avoid Iran government from spying on your mobile phone and your location, protecting most of your privacy in that way.

New driver appeared in your family these days? If it is your daughter, you can make wise thing and remind her that using her mobile phone in the vehicle is not the best idea. This advice works well for anyone in your family, yet latest study shows that all teen girls are almost two times more likely to use cell phones or other electronic gadgets while driving than teen boys – and that may spell car crash.

The driver safety group called AAA Foundation installed video cams in the automobiles of 52 teens when they had got their driving permissions. AAA Foundation returned when those teens had got their driving licenses and were driving their cars for approximately six months. Cams recorded endlessly, yet only stored information for 10 seconds right before and after the vehicle swerved harshly or the rough braking was used. The study furnished about 8,000 video clips in total.

Only 15% of all incidents involved some type of distraction, showing that teens already have many troubles when driving.

“Cell phone texting and talking, personal grooming, reaching for various things in the vehicle were amongst the most ordinary distracting actions,” AAA Foundation CEO Peter Kissinger said in his statement. He believes that distracted driving behaviors make its contribution to making car accidents the major source of death for teens.

The largest distraction for all teenagers was the usage of electronic gadgets that was seen in as much as 7% of all video clips or about half of all incidents which had happened.

Yet girls were surprisingly far more likely to distract from driving than boys. Girls utilized their cell phones twice as often as boys. Also they were 50% more likely to start reaching for anything in the car, and they took food and drinks more frequently behind the wheel.

Still good news for all parents is that those distracted behaviors considerably decreased when mother or father was in the vehicle. Nevertheless, when they are not there and the teen driver has the group of friends in the vehicle, risks go up. Yet don’t blame cell phone – while teens were two times as likely to suddenly drive off the road during the horseplay in the car, they were in fact less likely to utilize their cell phones with mates in the vehicle.

The video cams in addition measured subtile behaviors like teens who took their eyes off the road, which was far more ordinary happening when their cell phone was present in the vehicle.  Usually, teen drivers looked off the road the second longer than similar drivers without any cell phone distractions behind the wheel.

“A second might not seem much to you,” Kissinger said. “Yet at 65 mph, the vehicle passes the basketball court length in a one second.”

As a parent who cares about your teen kid you cannot prevent all his or her distractions while driving. Still you can help your kid to avoid at least half of the dangerous situations on the road by blocking cell phone usage in the car that will lead to the more focused driving behavior of your daughter or son.

What do you think about teens driving US roads? Tell us in the comments!

David Petraeus, the CIA Director, cannot wait to use all your household devices in order to establish reliable everyday surveillance on you. Television, air conditioning system, car navigation systems, light switches… Smart home systems are spreading quickly and they will become an awesome basis for the most effective surveillance system CIA Director could ever dream about.

Computer technologies are growing day by day and now cloud computing arises. Later its development will lead to the supercomputing that will be gaining more and more power. And development of the supercomputing will eventually leads to the quantum computing with the power that is hard to imagine. As for the smart homes, their sensor networks, RFID technologies, energy harvesters and small embedded servers will be successfully used to locate, identify, monitor and remotely control all household devices connected to the system.

There are many legal restrictions for CIA related to collecting private data about US citizens, but ambient geolocation data from various devices is not exactly the subject to those legal restrictions. In fact, after changes being made in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2008, those data is in the “grey area” of the laws. The manufacturers of the hardware have been storing geolocation data for years and soon CIA will have access to it. Your worries might rise even more because many legislators are already alarmed because of US government can easily track your location via smartphone.

Along with the happiness of the David Petraeus about having the ability to use your smart house devices connected to the system in the way that is now called Internet of Things to spy on you, there is another thing to worry about. In fact, it is not a thing but huge facility in Utah that is called Utah Data Center. After construction finish it will be used by NSA to spy on all US citizens by all possible means. I guess CIA will be involved in this too; at least the data gathered by smart home systems will probably be stored and processed here.

So what can you do about it? Rejecting the installation of the smart home system is probably not the best idea because in the nearest future everyone will have such systems installed in their homes. Thus the only right solution I can see is to prevent CIA from spying on you via smart home system and avoid being monitored by the watchful eyes of David Petraeus.

What can you say about it? Express your thoughts in the comments!

According to the federal law, even the simplest cell phone must be able to gather user’s location data so that 911 emergency services can react appropriately in case of any emergency. Current Obama administration, nevertheless, wishes to grab this information for its own aims.

In accordance with The Washington Times report, the Justice Department has filed a brief at the US Court of Appeals last month. They insisted the authorities had full right to collect tracking data from the cell phone for 60 days without any warrant on the basis of possible cause.

By asserting this detailed data is related to the criminal investigation, it is likely that there would be no real limit to the authorities’ access to somebody’s every movement. In the current case, federal agents looked for the movements history of particular clients of T-Mobile carrier and MetroPCS, yet federal magistrate enacted that the authorities’ hunch that those individuals might be engaged in criminal offence was sufficient to deserve release of general subscriber data, such as his or her name and address, yet more convincing evidence has to be met prior to court would force the release of all location data.

The administration has appealed this judgment to the district court, debating the location data presented third-party important business records which are not a subject to privacy protection at all. The judge decided that this is an absolute violation of the 4th Amendment.

The main concern lies in that by giving the authorities access to private location data of any person over the period of two months, it would show full picture of any person’s life. The information could display all friends, political leanings, associates, religious affiliations and hobbies of the person, and even bad habits like gambling. Such delicate data could as effortlessly be misused for blackmailing political foes as it could be utilized to crack organized crime groups.

Nevertheless, the opposite side of the argument merits some attention too. There would probably be just few people who would mind having the authorities track those individuals who they think of as a very dangerous to the citizens, such as drug kingpins, sex offenders and suspected terrorists. Still if you want to protect your privacy as a law-abiding citizen, you can prevent Obama Administration from tracking your location via smartphone or any other kind of gadget-embedded GPS tracker.

How do you think, will this whole situation with our privacy ever change? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

You have probably already known that, but for those of you who might miss something:

• there are dozens of LTE networks around the world and lots of predictions that this standard is the communication future of the humanity, but there are many real problems with the infrastructure and terminal equipment
• there are hundreds of 3G networks around the planet with billions of subscribers using them
• the quantity of Wi-Fi networks is even bigger and according to the analytics’ predictions more than 95% of all mobile devices will have built-in Wi-Fi module until 2015

Considering that in 2016-2017 there will be 15-17 billion of mobile devices in the world you can only imagine the full potential of this technology, especially if you think about the fact that most laptops already have built-in Wi-Fi chips and the quantity of smartphones and tablets with Wi-Fi modules is sprouting like mushrooms after the summer rains.

Morgan Stanley Investment Bank predicts that mobile internet traffic will grow 39 times between 2010 and 2014, going beyond 2TB per month. It is 20% higher than cautious predictions of other analytic agencies. But even the most conservative predictions are talking about mobile traffic growth in about 20 times in the years to come. And neither 3G nor LTE will be able to handle such huge data demand even despite their high-speed traffic access.

So large communication industry players have started to think about it and make some actions to solve this problem, and from what they do I can say that our planet is moving towards the Femtocell infrastructure. Just look by yourself:

• Vodafone has changed its strategy lately, moving from the macro networks development to Wi-Fi and Femtocell technologies
• Canadian company Shaw Communications have purchased LTE licenses in 2008 but eventually after detailed analysis and dozens of tests decided to forget about building Advanced LTE networks and start to deploy Wi-Fi Mesh networks using Cisco equipment for them
• American operator Cox Communications have spent more than half billion dollars for 3G and LTE licenses and even deployed 3G infrastructure, but after few years decided to leave this 3G business. They have focused on reusing the Sprint Nextel mobile equipment infrastructure and their customer services

• The cost of transferring data through Wi-Fi is only about 10% of the usage of 3G network for the same amount of data, so in the nearest future such thing as mobile traffic data offload from 3G to Wi-Fi networks will be quite normal issue
• Femtocell device is a mini 3G or 4G/LTE base station so it might be unavailable to most of the customers due to the future Wi-Fi usage abundance, especially if consider the fact that plenty of simple tablets and other mobile devices has only Wi-Fi connectivity but no 3G or 4G/LTE one. It will lead to the Wi-Fi hotspot necessity along with Femtocell access. And by the way, 3G and even LTE speed is nothing in comparison with 802.11n devices’ speed, which in the nearest future will be even more fast in 802.11ас devices
• After many serious analytic researches АТ&Т have decided to implement large-scale Wi-Fi network development as an addition to its 3G network. They acquired one company that owns a lot of hotspots and with their resources AT&T has more than 20 000 hotspots now. They use all of those hotspots as both Wi-Fi access points and as an offload for their 3G mobile traffic data that results in growth of the capacity of their 3G network coverage in highly crowded locations

While all this might be awesome when we are talking about the better signal quality, bigger data stream and faster connections in the future, there is one huge problem you must know about – Femtocell complies with lawful interception requirements. What it means for you? It means that law enforcement agencies, authorities and intelligence agencies will have full rights to listen to your calls or find your location using all those Femtocell base stations to easily triangulate your coordinates, even indoors.

As long as Femtocell technology uses wide variety of frequency bands, ranging from 700MHz to 2600MHz, you will need multifrequency jammer tuned against Femtocell in order to arrange your security against this technology in the future.

What are your thoughts about it? Do you like how communications industry changes or you feel some threats it has? Share what you think in the comments!

The latest news about UK plans to spy on its citizens and India trying to spy on all mobile phones in the country are nothing in comparison to the latest scandal in the USA related to the illegal intrusion of the secret intelligence agencies into the private life of common American citizens. The reason of it is the latest edition of the Wired magazine with the picture you can see above at the cover. The facility you see there is being constructed by the NSA (National Security Agency of the USA), and this facility is nothing more but the gigantic intelligence and spying center, where all information about ordinary American citizens will be stored — starting from their phone conversations recorded and ending with Google search queries. The author of this article, based on the sources from NSA, is a well-known journalist James Bamford. Since the beginning of the 1970s he wrote four books about NSA as its primary chronicler and critic at the same time.

It is known for long time already that NSA conducts large-scale construction in the desolate wastelands near small Mormon town of Bluffdale, Utah. Officially there will be the cyber security center that will protect US from foreign hackers. But Bamford claims that the real goal of the NSA is not that simple. He describes in all details such things which are far more obscure than even the most incredible conspiracy theories.

Two hangars with the four 25 000 square foot facilities will be the heart of the Utah Data Center. There will be so many servers that the amount of the stored data will be equal to one yottabyte. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has estimated in 2003 that all humanity’s knowledge was equal to something about 5 exabytes at that moment, i.e. 200 000 times less than Bluffdale center will be able to store. If their storage will be filled out someday, the information stored will be equal to 500 000 000 000 000 000 000 pages of text.

So how the NSA is going to fill all that huge storage? Bamford is absolutely sure that not with the commonly accessible data. It is far more interested in the data that is being held in the so called “deep web”, or invisible web, which is not indexed by search engines, password-protected and encrypted, flying through the air around us by means of wireless signals.

The NSA’s story has begun from the famous Japanese kamikaze attack on the Perl-Harbor. The National Security Agency was created as the Pentagon’s division to prevent such incidents from happening in the future, gathering information about USA’s enemies abroad. After 9/11 incident when the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed the NSA’s priorities have started to change. The Agency got the wide powers in surveillance operations inside the country due to the war against terrorism claimed by the administration of George Bush and famous USA PATRIOT Act. From now on NSA could eavesdrop to any cell phone call without getting the warrant for that if at least one of the talkers were abroad. And that was another huge scandal when The New York Times discovered that in fact millions of calls of ordinary Americans were intercepted.

There were some amendments approved for related laws which were intended to limit the power of NSA. Still Bamford says that both Agency and the government have not refused to implement the idea of the total control over the information flows inside the country, and laws’ phraseology is too illiquid to stop them. Quite the contrary, NSA would point whole might of their spying machine towards the American population in the 2013 when construction of the Utah Data Center will end. He believes that NSA has all necessary technologies to eavesdrop and record every single cell phone call, get access to any e-mail or intercept the data about any financial transaction and reach every single database. To do that NSA co-operates with the most popular phone service providers and mainstream internet providers. Moreover, few years ago NSA made huge break-through in the field of decrypting algorithms and developed extremely fast supercomputer to perform decrypting operations. So now they will build that Utah Data Center, gather all that data and start to analyze it, able to decrypt almost any encryption except Advanced Encryption Standard (ASE) and similar ones.

As a rule, NSA is not very generous when it comes to public comments on its actions. There are even jokes that NSA stands for Never Say Nothing which are spreading due to their silence. But this time they spoke! NSA director Keith Alexander was questioned by the Congress regarding Wired article. It was done in quite joky manner. Alexander was answering No to all questions he was asked, repeating it more than 10 times. As a result, all accusations and facts from the Wired article were absolutely rejected. Moreover, both talkers pronounced the Bamford’s surname incorrectly.

While it is really hard to believe that NSA is as almighty as Bamfort depicts, he is absolutely sure in his sources, which are both ex- and present NSA employees. One of them told Bamford as she was listening to the intimate conversation of the American citizen with his wife while he was abroad. The other one, scientist and mathematician, is describing all patterns he knows used by NSA to intercept the data flow. NSA becomes the largest, most secret and potentially most aggressive intelligence agency in the world. While Bamford admits that the top priority of the Agency is to protect USA from the external threats, he says that when NSA got the ability to gather absolutely all information regarding US citizens, they have decided to use its full potential.

So it does not matter what wireless frequencies you are using in your daily life, be it GSM cell phones, 3G and 4G gadgets, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth gizmos, GPS devices or other things – you need protection from now on, because earlier you were spied by the Big Brother only time from time but now it will be constant issue. Thus you need to have protection from NSA Utah Data Center and their ubiquitous surveillance.

And now I will let you to recover from shock and express your thoughts about it in the comments.