Biometrics, the Prison Within -- TripWires, Totalitarianism, and TechnoidsOwen Myles, Contributor Responsibility for originally acquiring the emails has been attributed to Anonymous. As the name should indicate, the identity of Anonymous aside from occasional arrests or confessions is self-described. It seems inevitable that many, including even directly-opposing groups and individuals share this name. Failure for certain agencies to exploit such an opportunity would require improbable strategical retardation. For this reason, Anonymous productions should be given the benefit of their name unless otherwise verified. Regardless of who Anonymous actually was at the time of the Stratfor leaks, some interesting information has certainly come of it. For some who pay special attention to this field, it is not so much a surprise as it is an affirmation. Surveillance is a very popular sport amongst our frightfully feisty overlords, but not so much for their subjects. They generally advertise it only where it will encounter the least amount of angry pitchforks. Perhaps it was the same Anonymous that produced the video below a video quite beautifully, but depressingly putting the colossal surveillance empire we now face into perspective: Part 1: Anonymous Big Brother is Watching (Prepare to End of Privacy) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKaG9pfEFSQ REMOVED Part 2: Anonymous Big Brother is Watching (Prepare to End of Privacy) A surveillance empire is indeed closing in;silently from some directions, and boldly from others. India is forcing their entire population into biometric registration; the U.S. military and Afghan government have begun imposing biometric registration throughout Afghanistan; the U.K. the LHC of surveillance is desperately trying to make Orwell look like an unimaginative bore, and other nations such as Mexico arefloundering in suit. Even Brazil is wiggling lustfully for a biometric future. The FBIs IAFIS and DHSs IDENT biometric systems are merging into into NGI which already contain data for 1/3 of the U.S. population; freakish proposals like E-Verify are brooding; drones are being deployed throughout the U.S.; whole cities have been transformed into electric Skinner-Boxes, and even the realm of the mind is being stalked. Corporations have merged with government on nearly all matters; Microsoft watches us; Monsanto (FDA) seeks control of our food supply; Academi does our killing; Serco and GEO Group harvest criminals; dubious Israeli companies manage sensitive U.S. telecommunications infrastructures (in secret), and on and on. But thankfully, we have Stratfor to manage global intelligence for us. Maybe they should change their motto to: Getting vital data to the plebeians because the government never will. Biometrics as a widely applied science is exploding. From your keystrokes to your shopping cart, you are leaking a perpetual trail of what has been for nearly the whole of humanitys existence private or non-existent data. Far beyond the stale cookies and LSOs of the browser, we are being mined, existentially. If not yesterday, then before long, streetlights will instruct and admonish you, your grocery-store will scour your purchasing habits and even your face and send your daughter coupons for baby products before either of you know shes pregnant and Google will gather your voice and other biometrics for the NSA, and the NSA will pimp it to VIP customers. Or maybe your car will find your mood intolerable and drive you to the nearest FAST machine for screening. And when the great hero of biometrics fails, the TSA will oblige you with good old-fashioned organic molestation at one of many omnipresent checkpoints. With artificial climates defining the outdoors, artificial-intelligence confining our conduct, artificial food nourishing us, and an artificial media suspending our heads in the artificial clouds, it looks like without an epic solar-flare or global holocaust, well all eventually exist in some surreal virtual-reality representation of the ids of our masters, with a few allotted virtual-liberties to keep us working. Technology is a part of us; as we develop, learn and strive for a will unrestricted by hitherto unsubdued limitations, it is a necessary phase but one which should be executed through self-definition and self-determination. It is frightening to see us so prematurely thrust into the reckless and impatient fantasies of the few, whose version of the phase is not evolution, but is a masquerade. You can read other articles by Owen Myles HERE You can support this information by voting on Reddit HERE The Eccentric Intelligence Agency: Helping the Ouroboros finish itself. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 