USs Intrusion

Its proved almost everywhere that power can dominate anybody, anywhere. But it doesnt
proved anywhere, or it dont give license to get into the people life & peep into what stuff they
are doing? Its the most ridiculous thing the power gives to the power. But there are some
people or organizations who do these things as their motive & as their work.
But, hats off to 29 year old young Edward Snowden who showed the courage & exuberance
against USs NSA ( National Security Agency) for which he used to work & against his own
country. He not only went against worlds hegemony country USA but also against his employer
but also showed the world that by raising voice against the wrongdoing & not become numb
you can not solve the problem but at least can show your courage & wisdom& not become slave
of anybody. And that what Snowden did.
After the disclosure from Snowden, Obama said that it was important to distinguish between the
deep concerns we have as a government around theft of intellectual property or hacking into
systems whether its our financial systems, our critical infrastructure.
About the programme
The recent programme called PRISM of NSA against all the citizen of the globe by getting
access to their e-data, phone data & call recordsis somewhat they got access to their life. Because
there are many people in advanced countries who spent their more than half of the day on
internet, & sending & getting important & confidential information, getting bank transactions,
geeting information on phone calls, messaging, etc. And getting access to these very important
data that NSA was stealing & peeping into those is question mark on their organization. NSA got
into the personal freedom of people around the globe.
USA used the advantage of its hegemony & entered into contract & nexus with the internet
giants of US companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Verizon, AT&T, Skype, AOL,
Google, PalTalk, Apple, Youtube. All these companies revealed E- mail, Chat-video, Video,
Voice, Photos, Stored Data, VoIP, File Transfers, Video Conferencing, Notification of target
activity logins, Online social networking details, special requests. Google cable across Atlantic
was bugged by NSA & GCHQ.
And these companies also happily get into it & readily gave access to their customers
information. The companies on which used to rely for our daily usage, they passed by their users
information let them go.
What has created particular concern in US is that under the secretive Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders, all the US telecom companies have given the NSA all their
transactions of the millions subscribers.

Transactional data, or called metadata are not the actual phone conversations but records od who
talked to whom, from where & for how long.Its almost revealing actual conversations itself
The most closely guarded secret of all collaboration with technology companies & internet
service provides themselves.
Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities into
commercial encryption software.
The NSA spends $250mn in a year on a programme which among other goals, work with
technology companies to covertly influence their product designs.
How they did it
Vast amounts of encrypted internet data which have up till now been discarded are now.
accessible & exploitable. The breakthrough which was not described in detail meant intelligence
agencies were able to monitor large amounts of data flowing through the worlds fibre optics
cables & break its encryption, despite assurances from internet company executives that this data
was beyond the reach of government.
Independent security experts have long suspected that NSA has been introducing weakness &
getting lame in security standards. NSA has the capability against widely used internet protocols,
voice over internet protocol, HTTPs, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) used to protect online
shopping & banking.
NSAs commercial solutions center, ostensibly the body through which technology companies
can have their security products assessed & presented to prospective governments buyers.
As US is worlds largest fibre optic network hub, it can tap most of the data passing through its
territory. It can tapped easily as all US carriers have obviously provided the US government
direct access to their networks. The US is tapsping into major trunk routes of Internet in the
international waters. Three taps were, one in off the coast of South America, one north of Africa
& one in Indian Ocean.
After the disclosure by Snowden, all the Silicon Valley internet giants were saying that they are
not providing the NSA direct access to their servers, while at the same time admitting that they
are duty abound under the US laws to provide the NSA any data it wants.
This is the first time ever saw that any countrys government could be the legal thief & in case
of US we can say its Empire Espionage.
NSA not only snooped into people life but they didnt spared G-20 meeting held in London held
in 2009. NSA & Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) of United Kingdom, the
British equivalent of United Kingdom, jointly spied on the G-20 summit. The snooping used

variety of methods, from tapping satellite signals to specially prepared internet cafes made for
delegations.

Surveillance of India
When NSAs case disclosed at that time it was shown that India was the 5th most snooped
country. The main threat is that in the past our government websites were hacked by Chinese
authorities & now the US. So its confirmed that we dont have enough cyber specialists to work
on these & there is greater threat. The reason for this penetration in India because Google,
Microsoft, Yahoo have large number of users in India & even government agencies & officials
routinely use web based services for their communications.
Many countries to whom Snowden asked for asylum they refused to give it & this is one
example that these countries dont want to go against US and hesitate to take steps against it like
India did by refusing to give asylum.But some countries like Russia, Equador, Bolivia, Hong
Kong (where Snowden first went after revealing the information) readily gave the asylum
request.
Conclusion
As it is evident that US punish all other countries in different means for violating laws &
breaking rules, the recent case of Syria for using WMD, so is it the time to raise voice against the
Empire of the world as Snowden did? Even after G-20 snooping why the other powerful
countries are not raising voice against this NSAs snooping activity which is against the
fundamental right of the people at least for India.
So its very high time that the other countries like China, Russia, India , Japan, France, Brazil &
other must raise their voice against this illegal intrusion by US on other countrys people. Its the
case of sheer of security of anybody in any country. If this thing taken not so seriously then the
day is not so far USA will rule the roost.
Name :Abhijit Roy
References: Frontline Magazine, Business Line, The Hindu