"The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents.
The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
It doesn't really. All it does is to give the .GOV a large trove of information they can mine for what they consider useful information, blackmail fodder, private information, etc.
Because of all this I want a new app for my phone. One that will allow me to encrypt my text messages before I send them, and only allow the unencrypting of them if the proper pass phrase is entered. If the phrase isn't entered within a certain amount of time the message goes bye bye and there is nothing there for the NSA to try to look at.
If the message is sent through multiple data streams, the NSA would have a very hard time trying to get all the pieces so they could decode it.
Spread Spectrum Technology for the masses. :)
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Good luck with that... They have the keys to PGP, what's to say they won't for SST?
mykryptofon.com encrypts everything and since there is no middle man there is no ability to "warrant" the back-end server
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