Will everything on the internet eventually be logged and searchable?

1. 2015-10-19 at 6:25 PM UTC

   #1
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I've read a couple of articles recently that make the proposition that in the future, all of the internet content we've searched for and everything we've posted to social media will be in a searchable database. All the weird porn you've searched, stuff you've bought, things you've said as jokes, all there for law enforcement and the general public to search at will. Needless to say this is the modern day MOON PERSON equivalent of accidentally forgetting to wear pants when you go to school. And you spent the whole night smoking meth and jerking off to furry cheese pizza and while writing degrading messages all over yourself with sharpie.
   
   Is this likely/does this make anyone else nervous?
2. 2015-10-19 at 8:37 PM UTC

   #2
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Not gonna happen.
3. 2015-10-19 at 8:45 PM UTC

   #3
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Why do you think that? I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but it seems feasible even with our technology right now.
4. 2015-10-19 at 8:54 PM UTC

   #4
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Its an insane invasion of privacy. I would not be surprised if the government had the entirety of the internet stored in NSA data centers but there is no way they would open it to the public.
5. 2015-10-19 at 9:05 PM UTC

   #5
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Its an insane invasion of privacy. I would not be surprised if the government had the entirety of the internet stored in NSA data centers but there is no way they would open it to the public.

   
   
   Well, yea, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen in the future or even now. The Chinese (until very recently) haven't given a fuck about rc's produced there and shipped to america, russia doesn't care that they have a bunch of people committing credit card fraud with american victims. Plus there's the whole darknet...it could happen I think.
6. 2015-10-19 at 11:37 PM UTC

   #6
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   It already is.
7. 2015-10-19 at 11:51 PM UTC

   #7
   

   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
   Unfortunately this is more likely than i'd like.
8. 2015-10-20 at 12:42 AM UTC

   #8
   RestStop Space Nigga
   I read something about google storing everything you search for three years but it's in the form of a bunch of matrix like 1's and 0's probably no one cares to decipher due to the fact that most of it is facebook pictures of newborns/youtube/gangbang porn.
9. 2015-10-20 at 3:07 AM UTC

   #9
   

   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

   I read something about google storing everything you search for three years but it's in the form of a bunch of matrix like 1's and 0's probably no one cares to decipher due to the fact that most of it is facebook pictures of newborns/youtube/gangbang porn.

   
   google keeps search logs for a long time, 3 years sounds right, but they claim they don't keep any personal details, just a unique ID to tie together a search profile.
   
   the new NSA facility is built to do exactly that; they have like 4-10 exabytes of storage capacity and they've been known to tamper with internet routing to force traffic through their own circuits so they can cache it.
   
   encrypt everything.
10. 2015-10-20 at 12:08 PM UTC

    #10
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    The solution? EMP
11. 2015-10-20 at 3:34 PM UTC

    #11
    

    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

    The solution? EMP

    
    a lot of hardware has shielding against EM interference, viability would depend on how much power you put through it I guess. I've seen the level of security they put on government datacenters here in australia; would suspect it's a lot higher for betabet-soup agencies in the US considering they know people are aware of what they're up to... solid metal enclosures or faraday-cages would be a drop in their budget
12. 2015-10-20 at 6:06 PM UTC

    #12
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    You ever go on Tor to log in to Facebook?