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Originally Posted by ereaderundecided
I was wondering what the possibility is that Calibre has a NSA backdoor? I think this is remote, but I'm sure the NSA would love to know what we're all reading  |
As weird as it sounds, FBI was 'caught' using Patriot Act to get library's records in the past:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082501696.html
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Sect...ontentID=21662
As for NSA, they don't have to do any of that. They just hack/break/get-lawful-access into internet backbones and just split optical fibers and trawl raw packets. When you buy a book from one of the services, they know. When you view a book on Amazon, they know (incidentally, Amazon doesn't even bother with SSL except for checkout & CC submission.. shameful).
Given enough data, it's trivial to categorize a person based on what they read. It's ML 101. They can figure out your age, sexual preference, whether you have pets or kids etc. Given enough of these sorts of categorizes they can categorize you and figure out whether you pose a risk to society, US, gov etc. I just don't think they can act on all this info… if you're an American that is! If you're foreign, your data is free for all.
Have you seen Minority Report? That type of prediction tech isn't far off (sans precogs of course).