about knowledge sharing, and the other is whether it can monitor everyone's information based on national security without a bottom line. These two films remind me of the same type of documentary "The Story of WikiLeaks" a few years ago, but there is nothing new under the sun.
You have known that you may not be monitoring, but you will still feel shocked when you know the details of the monitoring.
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"Son of the Internet"
Allen, no doubt He is an Internet genius, a famous American geek in his teens. He is one of the founding members of many Internet protocols (the most famous one is RSS) and the initiator of many websites and Internet organizations. The obituary when he died was read by Tim Berners-Lee, one of the founders of the World Wide Web.
Allen was sued for downloading and sharing MIT papers, causing his depression to worsen and committing suicide. His death once again triggered society's thinking about information sharing and the openness of the Internet.
A few weeks after his death, a student participated in the research of a cancer treatment plan just because he read some of the papers he shared, and made significant progress.
He said: There are two diametrically opposed comments on the Internet. First, the Internet has made the world a beautiful place, with freedom of information, convenience and speed. Second, the Internet makes the world worse, surveillance, fragmentation, etc. But in fact, both of these are right, both are real, and the right to choose is in our hands.
This directly reminds me of the mysterious scientist: Tesla, (yes, Musk named his electric car Tesla based on his respect for Tesla and his contribution to Tesla in the field of alternating current. To pay tribute to his outstanding contribution, if the description of Tesla on the Internet is true, then he will undoubtedly be the greatest geek that has ever appeared in human history, there is no one.) His ideal is to let all mankind use free electricity, he In the later period, all scientific materials were sealed by the FBI, including him, which was closely monitored by the FBI. Ai committed suicide at the age of 26, and Einstein published the theory of relativity at 26.
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[Fourth Citizen]
Yes, this movie talks about The result is the ins and outs of Snowden's Prism incident. After reading it, you will feel that the reports on Snowden by CCTV at the time were weak. In the process of watching the movie, I have been thinking that no matter how good an actor is, it is difficult to perform Snowden's experience and subtle expressions during that week in Hong Kong.
At the beginning of the scene, there are some communication records between Snow's and reporters, and the background is a dark tunnel. Only the first two rows of lights show that the car is moving forward. It is in Hong Kong.
Snowden was interviewed by the Guardian at a hotel in Hong Kong, and there is a small detail that is very interesting. Because the phone and internet in the room may be monitored, he used technology to help the reporter's computer set the root password with a small square to cover his head and notebook, so that no one can read it.
During the process, the fire alarm in the corridor suddenly rang several times. All the sensitive people were wondering whether it was the monitor who knew that the telephone line could not be monitored, and was angry and warned, and finally couldn’t help asking the front desk. The alarm test was finally relieved. This is really a magical feeling, as if to be in a place where everything is monitored, to tell the fact that everyone is being monitored, and you feel that even the entire process of revelation is being monitored.
Some data sorting:
Each computer equipped with a special system can monitor 1 billion phones and the Internet at the same time, and the processing speed is 1TB (1024GB) per second, which is equivalent to 1000 high-definition movies, which can be scanned in one second. This is only the machine of 2011, and now it will only be exponentially faster in 2015. There are 20 set points, and the Ministry of Defense has 10 units.
As a liberal arts student, after listening to Snowden’s general explanation, the reporter did not understand the principles of those systems, but he was still shocked by the actual data.
When talking about why he was willing to risk going to jail to make this public, Snowden's answer was that he had seen the Internet before it was monitored, and he wanted a world like that. This is definitely an idealist talent. Thing.
When Snowden was doing these things, the reporter asked him if he was nervous. He said that he was actually prepared enough psychologically, but he would still be nervous when things happened. For example, there were all kinds of vehicles parked in front of his girlfriend’s house. For example, if someone breaks in during an interview, even if they are psychologically prepared, they will still be nervous, but this will not affect his decision to expose these inside stories.
In the first news report, in order to protect Snowden, the media used anonymity, and when deciding whether to disclose the identity, the discussion between the reporter and Snowden was very interesting.
On the one hand, reporters believe that exposing Snowden will make the whole incident more convincing, but they are also worried about whether this will allow the US government to find out who the leaker is faster. At this time, the U.S. government may not have discovered who leaked the secret, but may have discovered it, but does not want to make it public. This is very interesting. Snowden made it clear that he does not intend to hide, and will openly disclose his identity. Based on two points, one is that he feels that this is a contest between the government and the citizens, the voters and the elected. The game between the rulers, not the relationship between the ruler and the ruled. His goal is to allow the public to discuss and decide whether the government has the power to conduct such a large-scale information collection. Second, he feels that it is only a matter of time before the government finds out that the leaker is him. This strengthened my understanding of Snowden's heroic plot.
In Germany’s hearing on this incident, a former American monitor, William Binney, said:
It’s an honor to be here. I think it’s important to be here to testify and expose what is happening behind the scenes of the global intelligence community. Not only the NSA, but all the projects exposed by Snowden are basically related to information collection channels. In history, every dictatorship has done dictatorship. Their first task is to obtain information from the people. The purpose of these projects is to obtain information. Public information, I think this is the greatest threat to democracy for the whole world.
The conversation between reporter J and William Binney,
J: As a reporter who contacted Snowden, how do you think they would treat people like us.
W: You are all on the watch list, which means that they can find you through any device you are using, and they will record and obtain all the data.
J How will they handle this data? Just find out what we are doing?
W Well, that is only one of the purposes, and the other part, I think the main purpose is to find out the source of your information.
J So if I have a secret source, he is giving me information as a whistleblower. He works in the U.S. government. He is worried about government actions that he thinks is unconstitutional, so he contacts me. They...
W Yes, they will follow him, pay attention to his every move, and then start to obtain data, I think they will take him away directly on the street, I mean, they will do the same as the deep throat of Nixon era , Act in the dark.
Many people helped him in the process. Human rights lawyers in Hong Kong helped seek UN refugee asylum. The founder of Wikipedia (I saw a documentary about him, so I felt familiar and legendary when I saw him this time) and helped him fly from Hong Kong to Moscow. , A team of German lawyers prepared to defend him and so on.
In July 2014, Snowden's girlfriend who had been in love for many years went to Moscow to accompany him, and he was granted asylum in Russia for one year.
At the end of the film, another whistleblower found the reporter. This time it was about drones. The content mentioned was not even the screenwriter could think of. When Snowden did this, he obviously had a complete plan of his own, including his first stop in Hong Kong. He understood the impact of his actions and was prepared accordingly, especially psychologically. He is more worried about whether the latest whistleblower is ready.
The whole viewing process is a thousand times cooler than watching a Hollywood blockbuster.
There is nothing new under the sun. Orwell mentioned in "1984" a long time ago that there is a big brother who is everywhere monitoring our every move. In fact, there is really no privacy in the Internet age. It is not whether you can monitor your problems, but whether you are worthy of being monitored.
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