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Is “Big Brother” watching you?  Well security expert Jacob Applebaum claims that the United States NSA is watching in at least 13 ways, including several that people would not normally think of as possible:

LONDON – A well-known privacy advocate has given the public an unusually explicit peek into the intelligence world’s tool box, pulling back the curtain on the National Security Agency‘s arsenal of high-tech spy gear.

Independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum on Monday told a hacker conference in Germany that the NSA could turn iPhones into eavesdropping tools and use radar wave devices to harvest electronic information from computer even if they weren’t online.

Appelbaum told hundreds of computer experts gathered at Hamburg’s Chaos Communications Conference that his revelations about the NSA’s capabilities “are even worse than your worst nightmares.”…Appelbaum’s claims – supported by what appeared to be internal NSA slideshows – still caused a stir.

One of the slides described how the NSA can plant malicious software onto Apple Inc.’s iPhone, giving American intelligence agents the ability to turn the popular smartphone into a pocket-sized spy.

Another slide showcased a futuristic-sounding device described as a “portable continuous wave generator,” a remote controlled device which – when paired with tiny electronic implants – can bounce invisible waves of energy off keyboards and monitors to see what is being typed even if the target device isn’t connected to the Internet.

A third slide showcased a piece of equipment called NIGHTSTAND, which can tamper with wireless Internet connections from up to 8 miles away. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-can-spy-on-offline-computers-wirelessly-expert-jacob-applebaum-says/

Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum revealed what he calls “wrist-slitting depressing” details about the National Security Agency’s spy programs at a computer conference in Germany on Monday where he presented previously unpublished NSA files.

Appelbaum is among the small group of experts, activists and journalists who have seen classified United States intelligence documents taken earlier this year by former contractor Edward Snowden…

“Basically the NSA, they want to be able to spy on you. And if they have ten different options for spying on you that you know about, they have 13 ways of doing it and they do all 13. So that’s a pretty scary thing,” he said…

“Basically their goal is to have total surveillance of everything that they are interested in,” he said. “There really is no boundary to what they want to do. There is only sometimes a boundary of what they are funded to be able to do, and the amount of things they are able to do at scale they seem to just do those things without thinking too much without it.”

“They would be able to break into this phone, almost certainly, and turn on the microphone,” Appelbaum said at one point as he re-inserted the battery into his mobile device. “All without a court, and that to me is really scary.” Indeed, classified files shown later during his presentation revealed a device that for $175,800 allows the NSA or another license client to construct a fake cell tower than can allow officials to eavesdrop on texts and talks alike.

“They replace the infrastructure they connect to. It’s like replacing the road that we would walk on and adding tons of spy gear,” he said. “And they do that too!”…

“If the Chinese, if the Russians if people here wish to build this system, there is nothing to stop them,” he said. “The NSA has in a literal sense retarded the process by which we would secure the internet because it establishes a hegemony of power — Their power in secret to do these things.”

“This strategy is undermining the internet in a direct attempt to keep it insecure,” one of Appelbaum’s slides read…

“You can’t hide from these things, and thinking that they won’t find you is a fallacy,” said Appelbaum…

According to Appelbaum, it’s likely that it’s not just a coincidence that the NSA can infiltrate iPhones with ease. In one document he saw, he said the NSA “literally claim that any time they target an iOS device, that it will succeed for implantation.”

“Either they have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products — meaning they are hoarding information about critical systems American companies product and sabotaging them — or Apple sabotages it themselves,” he said.

Other products made by the likes of Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung all contain vulnerabilities as well, according to those documents, and the secret software used by the NSA and others to exploit them are available for free to properly-credentialed agencies.

“Everything that the United States government accused the Chinese of doing — which they are also doing, I believe—we are learning that the US government has been doing to American companies,” Appelbaum said. “That to me is really concerning, and we’ve had no public debate about these issues. And in many cases, all the technical details are obfuscated away.”  http://rt.com/usa/appelbaum-30c3-nsa-snowden-986/

There are several points to make about the above:

• The USA government has multiple ways to spy
• Thje USA government is involved in a lot of secret plots
• The USA government is using multiple ways to spy
• The USA government is using technology and malicious software to spy
• The USA government can spy from great distances away
• “Big Brother” (a term from George Orwell’s novel titled Nineteen Eighty-Four) clearly does exist
• Other governments can follow the lead of the USA to spy
• This conference was in Germany, a nation upset with what the USA spying has been doing
• This conference was in Germany, a nation which is expected to be central to the final European Beast power

God’s people are to pray for protection from ‘secret plots’:

2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
From the rebellion of the workers of iniquity,
3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword,
And bend their bows to shoot their arrows — bitter words,
4 That they may shoot in secret at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear. (Psalms 64:2-4)

The USA and UK have been involved in secret plots, and more sadly are expected.  I believe that this will lead to them (and others) limiting the ability of the Continuing Church of God at some point in time in the future to get the gospel out as effectively over source like the internet–the coming famine of the word (Amos 8:11).

And there is more.

Because of the Snowden leaks, the USA has already agreed to share its intelligence gathering information with the Germans and other Europeans.  The upcoming Beast power will soon have what it needs to fulfill various prophecies such as the following:

15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18, NKJV)

23 ‘And in the latter end of their kingdom, about the perfecting of the transgressors, stand up doth a king, fierce of face, and understanding hidden things; (Daniel 8:23, Young’s Literal Translation)

It would seem to take computers and other technology to aid in the fulfillment of the above scriptures, as well as various forms cyber-spying/monitoring.  And that is something that the USA has been engaged in and that technology is being shared now with the Europeans.

As far as “big brother” existing, notice also something I posted on 12/29/12, well before the Edward Snowden leaks:

Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law.

­Both argue that Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and that people have forgiven him a lot because of the “nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him.”

“He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them,” Stone told RT. “It is an Orwellian state. It might not be oppressive on the surface, but there is no place to hide. Some part of you is going to end up in the database somewhere.”

According to Kuznick, American citizens live in a fish tank where their government intercepts more than 1.7 billion messages a day. “That is email, telephone calls, other forms of communication.”  The complete interview of the above is at: http://rt.com/news/oliver-stone-us-orwellian-022/

It used to be that a difference between the Soviet Union and the USA was that citizens in the USA had more legal and privacy protections. But with the break-up of the old Soviet Union and the supposed “anti-terrorist” powers that the US government has adopted since 9/11/2001, there has been a shift in the USA.

This, combined with accelerating moral decline does not bode well for the USA, which badly needs national repentance.  It also does not bode well for the world as the USA is helping set the stage for the rise of the final European Beast power.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 at 8:10 am and is filed under Prophecy.

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