You are being watched. "No Such Agency"

" Every border you cross, every purchase you make, every call you dial, every cell phone tower you pass, every friend you keep, every article you write, every site you visit,every  subject line you type, and packet you route, is in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited but whose safeguards are not."

The above lines by Edward Snowden sent a chill down my spine, exactly the same kind of feelings I had so many years ago in the late eighties when i picked up a book from the local library called “The puzzle palace" by James Bamford . I was wondering whether to read it since it was thick and heavy but anyway I went through with it and I was more than enlightened and more  than enjoyed it.  

It was a live jump start for me and I  learnt a lot of the hidden world  ie hidden from the common man , about optical fiber landing sites, constructing  similar looking rooms in national communication companies for optical fiber  tapping , Torus antennae that monitor and process data from about 250 foreign  satellites simultaneously sucking  up all their domestic and international communications, the huge Utah Data Center  were the local people still dont know much about what the hell is  happening inside, about mysterious bases round the world were more mysterious aircraft come every once in a while and personnel come to retrieve data and carry out maintenance of the remote surveillance and monitoring equipment.

With their huge budget all hidden in various heads of the National Defense allocations rumored to be around 50 billion dollars the yankees  can scan the entire globe picking up all encrypted or plain  communications at will and processing at quantum speed . From Herbert Yardely with his two civilian clerks to the gigantic black building in Fort Meade, Maryland it was a hell of a journey for the "No Such Agency"  

But they have already picked up my scent, they have tracked my IP address , they have located it even after using double layers of proxy servers , however you "cover my arse" their next generation quantum decryption computers do the trick.I  did wonder about  the  black SUV with  CD plated numbers parked nearby , I  already feel the guys from the agency in black coats and dark sunglasses making surreptitious rounds of my residence , I always wondered about the  rubbish lying in the bin  why was it not collected ？ That piece of large canvas sheet lying there for ages surely could be hiding the most sophisticated surveillance equipment, sending its data to the nearby rented house were many  "Tourists" come and go.  I am sure I saw a gleam from my laptop camera , as if its watching me, remotely turned on  by the  "flame virus" which got the Iranians (its designed to replicate even on highly secure networks  activate microphones and cameras, take screenshots, log keyboard strokes, extract geolocational data from images and send and receive commands via Bluetooth wireless technology.) I should have followed Mark Zuckerberg and Michael S Dell and covered my laptop camera with tape , but its too late now ,I can already see the MQ-9  drone  taking off from a Nimitz class  aircraft carrier some where in between the Indian and pacific oceans, the Reaper is silently winging its way to its target, helped on by the NRE birds high in the sky ,constantly tracking the electronic signals emitting from my flame infected computers and cell phone. It comes in  under cover of darkness , evading radar by its high tech stealth technology. I am already looking up nervously to the roof of my house , feeling the Reaper releasing its GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb and the AGM-114 Hellfire II air-to-ground missiles, hitting my location with pinpoint accuracy and bringing the whole multi story structure down  disintegrating  and evaporating the rest of the residents also ,but then there  is always "collateral damage " 

 There is a sudden violent explosion and I jump up   in the air, only to realize that it was the young guys of the neighborhood exploding a nasty Diwali bomb !! 

" Every border you cross, every purchase you make, every call you dial, every cell phone tower you pass, every friend you keep, --------"

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