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The Internet has turned a scandal with surveillance of users into a meme

In early June, the world learned that US intelligence had been following Internet users for several years. To do this, the US National Security Agency (NSA) did not even need to crack or decrypt anything - it took data directly from the largest Internet companies that are based in the States and, of course, are subject to local laws. The news shocked the Internet, but very soon users recovered from the first impression and began to react in a more familiar way. Lenta.ru selected the best jokes about the "all-seeing" NSA.

The story of the PRISM program, under which the surveillance of users was carried out, was revealed by Edward Snowden, who worked under a contract with the CIA and the NSA. With his submission, The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers published several slides from a PRISM presentation. And if you distract from the contents of these slides, you will notice that they look somewhat clumsy.

This conclusion was reached by many. In particular, one designer from France, looking at the slides, indignantly declared: “Dear NSA. You can do anything with my data. But not with my eyes, ”and presented the“ beautiful ”version of the presentation.

Old presentation

New presentation

It followed from the PRISM presentation that the NSA had access to all user information, starting with data about when and where they went online, and ending with the contents of their letters, calls and messages. The American authorities did not begin to unlock and admitted to spying on Internet users. According to Washington, this was done to ensure national security. Users created a blog in response Obama Is Checking Your Email - https://obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com/ where they collect photos in which US President Barack Obama allegedly reads other people's letters.

- Obama reads other people's letters

However, the authors of the German site Nerdcore went even further by remaking Obama’s election poster and replacing his slogan “Yes we can” with “Yes we scan”. An inscription was added to the slogan: “Accept it,” and added at the bottom of the poster: “Trust. Trust. Trust. Repeat. "

- Image: @NerdcoreBlog

Internet jokers did not go past Facebook, among others it was convicted in collaboration with special services. Social networks have proposed new privacy settings for published posts: “For Everyone”, “For Friends and the CIA”, “Only for Me and the CIA” and “Only for the CIA”.

Some media outlets have noticed that Google warns about surveillance by security services when they switch to incognito mode in the Chrome browser. The browser memo honestly informs the user that such a precaution will not save from secret agents. However, this warning has been present in Chrome since the release of the browser in 2008.

Not all Internet jokers were outraged by the revealed truth about the "big brother" - some suggested reconciling with the current situation. A humorous, but very high-quality website dedicated to PRISM appeared on the Web. It tells about the program as a new service with many features: no ads, endless disk space, the ability to store information about your activity on the Web and in life ... However, when you try to register in such a system, the user will find out that he has long been in her.

Further more. The wits have come up with a special code that emulates a playful control panel for the NSA. Everyone can install it on their website. Having opened such a panel, "scout" will see a list of users and will be able to get into the profile of the person who is interested in him by clicking the "I think this is a terrorist" button. After making a couple of clicks, he will be able to "view the secrets" of the user. Although it is unlikely that he will be pleased with what he sees.

Supported by a wave of jokes on the topic and the authors of popular online comics. So, the creator of xkcd presented the "big brother" as something playing the strategic game "Dwarf Fortress", where the heroes - people - in turn play it. Cyanide & Happiness did not become wise, making a simple comic strip that sending an e-mail to the president is now very simple - just keep it in your drafts and he will definitely read it. The Joy of tech, on the other hand, made at least two comics: one that the axiom “in the 1990s“ nobody knows that you are a dog on the Internet ”, which was relevant in the 1990s, is more irrelevant, and the second is about NSA agents. On the open spaces there is a translated version in three parts:

Author: Sultan Suleymanov

Source [DLMURL] https://lenta.ru/articles/2013/06/28/prismjokes/ [/ DLMURL]

 

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