British Spies Said to Have Intercepted Yahoo Webcam Images(Operation Optic Nerve)

[newarkhiphop]

SAN FRANCISCO — A British intelligence agency collected video webcam images — many of them sexually explicit — from millions of Yahoo users, regardless of whether they were suspected of illegal activity, according to accounts of documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden.

The surveillance effort operated by Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, was code-named Optic Nerve. Images from Yahoo webcam chats were captured in bulk through the agency’s fiber-optic cable taps and saved to a GCHQ database, where they could be queried by search tool provided by the National Security Agency called XKeyscore, according to a report on Thursday by The Guardian.

The report did not indicate whether the agency also collected webcam images from similar services, such as Google Hangouts or Microsoft’s Skype. The Guardian did say the British intelligence agency was studying the possibilities of using the cameras in Microsoft’s Kinect devices, which are used with its Xbox game consoles, to spy on users.

Microsoft had no immediate comment on the report.

Yahoo, which was named in GCHQ documents, said in a statement on Thursday that it was not aware of the program and expressed outrage at published reports.

“This report, if true, represents a whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy that is completely unacceptable and we strongly call on the world’s governments to reform surveillance law consistent with the principles we outlined in December,” the company said in a statement. “We are committed to preserving our users’ trust and security and continue our efforts to expand encryption across all of our services.”

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there's levels to this shyt brehs


The Honorable Edward Snowden (pbuh)

 

[DEAD7]

 

[Type Username Here]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/2...epted-yahoo-webcam-images.html?_r=0&referrer=


there's levels to this shyt brehs


The Honorable Edward Snowden (pbuh)

The Most High blessed us again by exposing these crimes.

 

[Type Username Here]

Seems like those people who were worried about the kinect being used to spy into people's homes were correct in their fears.

 

[Yapdatfool]

Just imagine the Piff

Or lack-thereof

 

[killacal]

Seems like those people who were worried about the kinect being used to spy into people's homes were correct in their fears.

B b b but if you're not doing anything wrong what are you worrying about

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

flood of piff incoming

I love how they said it wasnt illegal.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Seems like those people who were worried about the kinect being used to spy into people's homes were correct in their fears.

The only thing is, your smartphone\tablet does the same thing, not just your webcam. We're already living in 1984.....

 

[Type Username Here]

The only thing is, your smartphone\tablet does the same thing, not just your webcam. We're already living in 1984.....

Sure, you are correct. There is a difference in scope and capability though.

 

[Lurka Ternt Posta]

 

[newarkhiphop]

The Most High blessed us again by exposing these crimes.

He truly did sacrifice himself for us

 

[BlvdBrawler]

The only thing is, your smartphone\tablet does the same thing, not just your webcam. We're already living in 1984.....

True, but my smartphone's camera is pressed point blank against my dining room table or facing the inside of my pocket 98.554% of the time.

 

[RatherUnique]

UK gives no fukks

 

[Type Username Here]

He truly did sacrifice himself for us

Alhamdulillahi HONORABLE, DISTINGUISHED PROPHET SNOWDEN (SWT)

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Alhamdulillahi HONORABLE, DISTINGUISHED PROPHET SNOWDEN (SWT)

HES A TRAITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!