US doesn't need hackers to control the world

Remember what Snowden said: The US is hijacking the internet cables under the sees to get raw internet users data. When Obama was asked why NSA was spying on Merekel, he simply said that : NSA/CIA are spy agencies and this is their job. I remember when it was revealed that US is spying on Kofi Anan the secretary of the UN. Truth is: when it comes to hacking, no body match the west, especially US, UK. Remember it was called " Project Echelon".

There is always the absurd assumption by all NATO allies that somehow US spying is benevolent.

The US government controls all this. But then comes the awkward question: Who controls the US government? That's the point where things get "anti-Semitic". There's the journalist Sasha Levine's "paranoid reflection" for you!

The next war will be fought on very different fronts:  earth, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.

Journalist explains why US doesn't need hackers to control the world, and it's hard to disagree
RT : 5 Oct, 2018

'Russian hackers' have become the go-to bogeymen for Washington. There's little mention of American hackers though – probably because they aren't needed, since most of the internet is a branch of US intelligence.

The US, which is now raising massive alarm over Russia's supposed efforts to hack everything Americans hold dear, has been refusing to sign a treaty on cyberspace behavior with Russia for almost a decade now. The reason is simple, one Russian-American author explains: Washington doesn't need a treaty, because it dominates the digital space completely as it is.

Washington's panic over ‘Russian hackers’ is just a reflection of what it's been doing to the world for years, says Yasha Levine, the author of ‘Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.’

And thanks to surveillance programs like PRISM, outed by Edward Snowden 2013, the US doesn't even need hackers: just by being on social media or using Google, you're voluntarily surrendering your data to the NSA.

Far from scaling back its snooping after Snowden pulled the curtain on PRISM, the US has multiplied its efforts. Citing 'national security', lawmakers renewed the NSA's sweeping spying powers this year. Domestic phone surveillance tripled last year, user data requests to Apple doubled, and user data requests to Google were at an all-time high.

And just recently, the 'Five eyes' powers – the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia – issued a memo demanding that tech giants implement ‘backdoors’ to allow governments direct access to users’ encrypted data.

The entire narrative of cyber threats to the "good guys" US is a smokescreen to hide the unenviable fact: it's the US that's the apex predator of the digital ocean.