Assange: Facebook is spying tool for US intelligence

wait a minute...

They guy who founded Wikileaks is championing privacy and the right to secrecy?

Facebook membership is not compulsory, and anyone dumb enough to post really compromising details on it deserves all they get.

That said, Facebook is so full of piffle and dreck it would take the CIA to find and extract anything useful from it.

By Noghar on 3 May 2011

spot the missing word

... take the CIA years to...

Christ, PC Pro, when are you going to set up a halfway decent forum that allows us to edit posts?

By Noghar on 3 May 2011

@noghar

don't be such a spoilt child! this site is free! at least ask nicely.

By gavmeister on 3 May 2011

This is news

It has often been alledged that one of the backers for Facebook was a CIA front...

By big_D on 3 May 2011

Osama didn't have internet access

What did he know that we didn't?
Not to have a public Facebook profile I assume..

By cheysuli on 3 May 2011

@gavmeister

The site is free? Do you even know how the Internet works, you wally? We're the ones writing copy for them! The least they could do is allow us to correct our own mistakes - and I'm not the first person to ask, 'nicely' or otherwise.

By Noghar on 3 May 2011

Crawl back under your rock please Assange

Nice attempt to deflect attention from his own problems again. He is only so bothered because still he has lots to hide himself. There is no smoke without fire and I don't trust him one bit.

I wish he would just stfu and disappear into the ether for good preferably while rotting in a prison cell somewhere for the rest of his miserable existence.

By mr_chips on 3 May 2011

@mr_chips

"There is no smoke without fire"

Daily Mail reader by any chance?

By Aspicus on 3 May 2011

lol Aspicus

My preference of newspaper is not relevant but since you ask I have never read the Daily Mail. I read the Times and occasionally the Telegraph.

By mr_chips on 3 May 2011

Espionage

Espionage has a sound like Assange.

Watching them watching us watching them?

“appalling spying machine”.

HOW MORONICALLY IRONIC!

By lenmontieth on 3 May 2011

Sense of proportion?

"Facebook is the most appalling spying machine that's ever been invented"

More appalling than living in one of the police states where anyone could turn out to be an informer?

By AdrianB on 3 May 2011

@Noghar

Quote: "We're the ones writing copy for them!"

Yes, because the 8 user comments per month they mention under "what you said" in the magazine really helps fill the pages...

By halsteadk on 4 May 2011

@halsteadk

It's site hits to which Norgar is referring
People will read the articles AND comments, thus increasing the advertising revenue

By greemble on 4 May 2011

How would you defend yourself...

He (Assange) is obviously making an indirect comparison of what he does (information sharing - hello internet!); and what the CIA does (mass spying via Facebook)... Facebook knows lots about you, does that matter? yes and no. Its fine for official use... but what about misuse? *nobody* wants their information mis-used... a persons name is all you need to start misusing information and making their lives hell.

Those that bash Assange, are the type that prefer to dig their heads in the sand and not know what is going on in the world... Are the world's goverments doing that brilliantly, that we blindly trust them?

Not me, I want to know the truth.

By FrobinRobin1 on 5 May 2011

So what else is new...

So the big US companies have built in a back door for goverenment access...big deal!

So Assange has yet again thrown something out that no one will really be bothered about to bring himself back into the spotlight since it has drifted from him in past months.

What will his next reviel be...maybe the fact that mobile operators store which masts your mobile phone is "pinging" off...or how about the store cards that track your purchase history...or the cameras in ATMs...or that if you pay your road TAX that all of your information and what your vehicle is can be accessed on the move by the police without a warant.

The only way to not leave a digital trail that can be accessed by the establishment is to live in the wilderness with no modern comforts and no transportation...Assange and his ilk need to get a life and stop scare mongering.

By eddietq on 5 May 2011

So what else is new...

So the big US companies have built in a back door for goverenment access...big deal!

So Assange has yet again thrown something out that no one will really be bothered about to bring himself back into the spotlight since it has drifted from him in past months.

What will his next reviel be...maybe the fact that mobile operators store which masts your mobile phone is "pinging" off...or how about the store cards that track your purchase history...or the cameras in ATMs...or that if you pay your road TAX that all of your information and what your vehicle is can be accessed on the move by the police without a warant.

The only way to not leave a digital trail that can be accessed by the establishment is to live in the wilderness with no modern comforts and no transportation...Assange and his ilk need to get a life and stop scare mongering.

By eddietq on 5 May 2011

So what else is new...

So the big US companies have built in a back door for goverenment access...big deal!

So Assange has yet again thrown something out that no one will really be bothered about to bring himself back into the spotlight since it has drifted from him in past months.

What will his next reviel be...maybe the fact that mobile operators store which masts your mobile phone is "pinging" off...or how about the store cards that track your purchase history...or the cameras in ATMs...or that if you pay your road TAX that all of your information and what your vehicle is can be accessed on the move by the police without a warant.

The only way to not leave a digital trail that can be accessed by the establishment is to live in the wilderness with no modern comforts and no transportation...Assange and his ilk need to get a life and stop scare mongering.

By eddietq on 5 May 2011

So what else is new...

So the big US companies have built in a back door for goverenment access...big deal!

So Assange has yet again thrown something out that no one will really be bothered about to bring himself back into the spotlight since it has drifted from him in past months.

What will his next reviel be...maybe the fact that mobile operators store which masts your mobile phone is "pinging" off...or how about the store cards that track your purchase history...or the cameras in ATMs...or that if you pay your road TAX that all of your information and what your vehicle is can be accessed on the move by the police without a warant.

The only way to not leave a digital trail that can be accessed by the establishment is to live in the wilderness with no modern comforts and no transportation...Assange and his ilk need to get a life and stop scare mongering.

By eddietq on 5 May 2011

Assange at the Back Door

Assange has been helping himself to back-door information for years, so I can imagine him having an opinion on the CIA doing the same.
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As for him criticising the CIA, that is hypocrisy, but I imagine it is lost on him because of his Gordon-Brown-like delusory belief in his own self-righteousness and disdain for the opinion of lesser mortals. (Does he throw staplers too?)
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Curiously one-sided, Mr Assange. Is he anti-American? Or is it just that he can't get the same info out of the Russians and the Chinese? Of course, if he did, he would be snuffed out far quicker than OBL.

BTW: Do all ATM's have cameras? I didn't know that. Sounds like a good idea, for tracking down cretins using stolen cards.

By fogtax on 5 May 2011

Old News

Anyone who downloads the Onion News Network podcast will have seen their sketch about this exact subject. It's very funy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

By sextonc172 on 6 May 2011

Old News

Anyone who downloads the Onion News Network podcast will have seen their sketch about this exact subject. It's very funy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

By sextonc172 on 6 May 2011

Old News

Anyone who downloads the Onion News Network podcast will have seen their sketch about this exact subject. It's very funy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

By sextonc172 on 6 May 2011

@AdrianB No sense of reality

"More appalling than living in one of the police states where anyone could turn out to be an informer?"

You mean like the UK where the Met despatch snatch squads to remove 'undesirables' from the path of the 'royal' wedding for fear of upsetting the leeching scumbag, inbreds.

By dodge1963 on 12 May 2011