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Shia LaBeouf: phone surveillance whistleblower?

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There's also this: FBI agent for the second time says all communications are recorded. "No digital communication is secure" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9kRLrmrjc

"there is a way to look at digital communication in the past ... no digital communication is secure"

Wow.

Surely they can't mean encrypted communication too, though?

From Cryptonomicon:

``How long do you want these messages to remain secret?'' Randy asked, in his last message before leaving San Francisco. ``Five years? Ten years? Twenty-five years?''

After he got to the hotel this afternoon, Randy decrypted and read Avi's answer. It is still hanging in front of his eyes, like the afterimage of a strobe:

I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.

Something people don't seem to be considering. Even if an encrypted communication is secure given today's technology and/or willingness to expend effort and resources, it becomes more readily accessible over time and decryption capabilities increase.

If and as communications are being recorded wholesale, how long until that encrypted communication is within ready reach of an unintended recipient?

In considering your security, you need to think not only of the present but also of the future.

It's funny cause it's true! In any condition, Shia LaBeouf didn't sign any agreement with the NSA though to work there. That's why hes not being hunted for treason.

Also, people do care, just lot less people understood the severity and problems it would cause back then.

Where is the FBI consultant that told him this? I am sure he signed a contract.

The (only credited) consultant is Thomas Knowles (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3240364/).

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom-knowles/a/272/830

He's got his three like any other citizen. They could hunt him if they wanted.

His three?

felonies per day, I assume.

If Shia handed Jay Top Secret documents and refused to give his source up, you think he'd be free? I suspect anyone with the power to go after him, who noticed his comment, knew about the streisand effect, and bought 5 more years of secrecy rather than go after this "leak".

Even before that we had "Enemy of the State", which clearly showed the direction this whole thing is going, albeit in a fantasy holiwood setting.

Reminds me of another classic, much earlier..with Gene Hackman.. playing the sax mournfully, after he tore his apartment to shreds looking for a hidden bug.

'The Conversation' 1974 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation#Enemy_of_the_...

Cool, gotta check it out..

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