As a long time geek and a hacker of many forms I have been on the net way before the masses and had the entire internet memorized until the graphic internet spawned the fast growth that the average person knows as the internet and it was no longer possible to keep up to the new pages.

Way back there the first NSA website emerged. It was a sloppy coded site and it was kind of a joke that any security threat existed so they were a huge joke of the coder/cipher punks being it was DoD. The type of security that did exist was the kind that protected the individual from the snoops that were busy trying to create ways to catch all the data transmitted in a get rich quick scheme. The NSA site was hacked not because of any security threat to government or corporate interests but rather they were thought to be lame by the rest of us.

The concept of secrecy for the few and complete surveillence for the rest is orwellian and dangerous. But, of course, the NSA managed to convince the government and corporations that they needed the services of the NSA and were granted funding after some suspicious activity that we believe was staged - somehow like a staged terrorist attack. Funny that the whole "matter of national security" clause is just a smoke screan for fooling the public. What it really is for is to protect the secrets of corruption, not protect you from terrorists, duh.

You ask any civilian what they think about the governmnet spying on them and you get the same rediculous answer - "What do I care, I have nothing to hide." As if they are all clones of a well conditioned manchurian candidate, incappable of independant thought or unable to take it to the next level - what would the mafia do with that information. What would the Nazi's do if they had the power to know what everyone is doing, saying, searching.

Some of the smartest individuals in society are corporate people. They see a profit in anything and know exactly how to cheat and destroy the competition. FYI the NSA has never deterred or caught a terrorist, not once. This is because this is not their purpose - the purpose is to spy on you for the government and corporate partners to cheat easier and weed out opposition.

The concept of secrecy for the few and complete surveillence for the rest is orwellian and dangerous. But, of course, the NSA managed to convince the government and corporations that they needed the services of the NSA and were granted funding after some suspicious activity that we believe was staged - somehow like a staged terrorist attack.

The top corporations and banks commit many crimes without a single criminal charge that the rest would be strung up for a lifetime. Personally I have known of a Motorola employee that was stealing military secrets right off military bases as he is a head technical support and just walked right out the door with data. These NGO's also are granted access to the Siprnet as military contractors. Which means, they not only have access to military secrets, but also have access to the Prism spy network of the NSA and any civilian individuals personal data too.

My question to the masses who ignorantly don't take notice is why can you not have access to what your government says in phone/cellular calls, does in front of their two-way television, surfs on the internet, etc? And why is a "hacker" charged for accessing private information and the NSA not?

It is time for the public to grow up and if they do not demand to see the private lives of the corrupt government officials and bogus national security files at least to learn how to use encryption on their data.