Google - Rise Of The Cyberspies
Google's parent company is called Alphabet. Whether this is just a coincidence or whether it has meaning I don't know, but you have to wonder what is Aphabet? Could it be just 3 of the 26 available letters? NSA for example? Or CIA? DoD?I always knew the NSA and the CIA had access to Google and the Google servers at a deep level. For example they can tap the traffic that goes between the servers on an internal data network, a supposedly private network that doesn't have access to the outside world but is used solely for server-server traffic between different parts of the Google Datacentrey-cloudy-thing, and is only accessable to Google and Google staff.
I've only found out today though that Google and other companies were incubated after startup and in some cases had been helped and guided (and possibly even concieved) by the NSA and the CIA in a targeted campaign to ensure the U.S. government would gain an almost omnipotent position with regards to the actual data flowing across the internet in the future. (Source: see 1.)
An Unparallelled Success
You have to admit that it's been an incredibly effective operation. Firstly, I don't know of anyone who performs a search engine query to find the answer to a question. but I know an awful lot of people that would google it to find an answer. Secondly you have their DNS root server at 8.8.8.8 -- second-popular only to Level3's 4.4.4.4. If you want to know what people are looking at, simply serve their DNS and answer their DNS queries. I don't know many people that use 4 octets to get around the web, I know even less people that use IPv6 addresses ;) (See Source 2 for info - and the article cited in Source 2 doesn't even assume access to the DNS servers or logs)It does start to get very scary and sinister indeed once you remember that we're not just talking about search engine queries here, that's just web, email and IP resolution, and the internet is so so much more than just that. Google have that covered, too.
Rise Of The Robot
Forget all the new Google services available and the seemingly daily release of another product to claim more marketshare of anything remotely computer-ish, and instead remember that Google have also created an obscure and not very well known little operating system for mobile devices called Android. Worldwide, over 75% of smartphones are Android phones, with Apple iOS clocking up a little over 22%. In the US Apple still have the market share with 55% of 'merkins preferring the half-eaten fruit compared to almost all the other 45% which are running Google's robot (just 0.02% run Windoze Mobile, for example). Here in the UK we seem undecided (shouldn't surprise the rest of the world that we Brits can't make our minds up) with Apple's 50% just edging our Android's 48%. Think about that for a second - three quarters of the world's smartphones are running an operating system that was made by a company that was basically set up and funded by the National Security Agency of the USA. (See Source 3). Their intelligence community must be creaming their pants. The days of spying via espionage are gone - nowadays you just download the app.But Google Are A Bunch Of Civvies
If you think these are outlandish claims and paranoia and conspiracy then I would say to you just think about the origins of NASA and how much help and involvement there was with creation and planning from the "Three-Letter" branches of US government. It was heralded as a civilian organisation set up to put people into space but when it comes down to it NASA was basically the branch of the military for space. It was formed by ARPA - we'll hear more about them in a mo - NASA's main raison d'etre in the beginning was the deployment and recovery of spy satellites once the U2 was found to no longer be a viable option for gaining intelligence from deep within the Soviet empire. NASA would not have achieved all it has achieved today (it may not even have ever existed) were it not for organisations like the NSA and the CIA needing to spy on the Soviets. (See Source 4).The Internet Is Actually A Nuclear Missile Launch System
Now take the internet itself as another example -- its original name was the ARPAnet after the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a division of the US Department of Defense (and interestingly part of NASA too!) whose one of many projects included an upgraded and nuclear-strike resilient communications system that would be capable of sharing information as well as voice and would self-route, without the need of operator assistance, and could dynamically learn new routes as new lines became available or ones became unavailable. A distributed communications system that could survive a nuclear attack and keep the bunkers connected to other bunkers and more importantly the missile silos too.In 1970 a few University campuses were joined together using this ARPAnet and thus was born the internet. ARPA survives to this day as DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the ARPAnet still exists as the base of all IP addresses - the DNS reverse IP lookups all have a TLD of ARPA. What does that mean? Look up the DNS for our old friend 8.8.8.8 (dns.google.) and you will see it's 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa. The reverse for 216.58.204.83 (www.utciad.co.uk) is 83.204.58.216.in-addr.arpa. A.B.C.D's IP reverse would be D.C.B.A.in-addr.arpa -- get the idea? Incidentally, the in-addr stands for "Internet Address". So that's NASA and the Internet that we can clearly prove and demonstrate were created by the US government security agencies to further their spying and intelligence resources. (Sources 5, 6 and 7).
So F##king What?
So then, what's the problem with that I hear you ask? "I don't mind the NSA bugging me because I have nothing to hide" kinda blase-ness? There's no problem if you've done nothing wrong? Well no, ok maybe you're right, but would you like me listening to all of your telephone calls, reading all of your emails, text messages, everything you put on your social media accounts, all the videos you record and every picture you take? Still OK? How about if I had the ability to switch on your microphone on your phone, or to activate the camera on your phone and record video and audio without you knowing? I don't think you would be very happy with that so why is it suddenly ok for somebody to do that if they work a government organisation that has 3 letters for a name?It really is a case of Big Brother and you have to think and ask yourself well what if a political party came into power that was biased against you, against your race, or your background and were willing to use the information they have on you to target, maybe ethnically cleanse or just persecute?
We could never have that happening in this day and age blah blah blah -- just remember Hitler was elected to power, Robert Mugabe was first elected into power... And in this world now where we have access to many types of news and there's rise of fake news what is real and what is propaganda?
So there you have it. Google are owned by Alphabet, just not the one you're familiar with...
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