How Much Does the NSA Know About Your Pathetic Personal Behavior?

By Meher Ahmad  |  June 7, 2013 | 5:40pm
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Alright, so, the jig is up. We’ve been caught with our pants down by the government, yet again. The National Security Agency has direct access to all sorts of our Internet communication, data, and metadata with their newly uncovered PRISM program. This means that time you Skype-cried to your mom about having bad gas in college was not a moment shared only between you two and your roommate who was pretending to sleep in the top bunk, but also by THE MAN, man!

Up until now, the naive among us have held the belief that what happens between you, your laptop, and the Internet is a private moment, one unsullied by government meddling. When you gchat your friend at three in the morning admitting that you probably care more about salami than your boyfriend, you believed that conversation was sacred. No longer, you wide-eyed believer in the sanctity of metadata. It’s aaaaall out there. And we’re here to answer exactly how many of your deepest, darkest Internet secrets are being read aloud on NSA screens RIGHT NOW.

Q: DOES THE GOVERNMENT KNOW I USE MY AOL EMAIL FOR MY PORN SUBSCRIPTIONS?

A: Absolutely. You thought everyone had jumped the AOL ship, and now that you have a nice, clean and professional Gmail account, AOL could be used for your PornHub subscription and dildo delivery service. I deleted all my old contacts on that account, you thought, so no IRL contacts will get spam emails about the latest crotchticklers on the market and I won’t have to suppress a meltdown while I sit at my work desk like last time. Yes, you’re safe from embarrassing spam emails sent to everyone from your grandma to your high school chemistry teacher, but someone whose salary is paid for by your taxes knows you own not one but two Hitachi Magic Wands.

Q: DOES THE PRESIDENT KNOW I WENT THROUGH A REGGAE PHASE AND SENT EVERYONE “BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE” BY SIZZLA THE DAY AFTER HE WON THE ELECTION?

A: Not only does PRISM reportedly have access to your Gmail chats, videos, voice and emails, but it can surveil Google Drive files and file transfers. So, yes, that 9GB of Ska you sent to your friend called “Ska for Days” could have ended up on the President’s daily briefing, a report that has featured PRISM data 1,477 times in 2012.

Q: DOES PRISM KNOW I SEARCHED, “HOW TO MAKE A BAKED POTATO IN THE MICROWAVE” AT 2 AM ON THURSDAY NIGHT?

A: PRISM has one filter to figure out which data is they are legally allowed to mine and which they have to begrudgingly walk away from, and that’s the “reasonably foreign” filter. In other words, the NSA is only allowed to gather foreign communications, but if an NSA agent “reasonably believes” you to be foreign, your communication is foreign too! That means if the agent is 51% confident you’re foreign, it’s all out on the table. And if you don’t know how to make a baked potato in the microwave, you definitely aren’t an American born and bred. PRISM can mine your Google searches unless you can convince the suspicious NSA agent you aren’t that foreign, so work on that accent and adjust your Google searches accordingly.

Q: DOES THE NSA KNOW THE DAY AFTER I WAS DUMPED VIA FB MESSAGE THAT I DOWNLOADED THE KATY PERRY MOVIE, DEAR JOHN, AND THE ENTIRETY OF THE ENYA DISCOGRAPHY?

A: With both Facebook and Apple as part of the PRISM program, the NSA not only knows you were dumped via Facebook message, but it knows which emoticon the message ended in (: (which is the douchiest emoticon out there and you do not deserve it). And since iTunes is part of Apple’s empire, it knows that you first turned to Enya and then to “Jagged Little Pill.” We’ve all been there.

Q: PLEASE TELL ME MY WEBCAM NUDES ARE SAFE.

A: I would, but I’d be lying. Emails, videos, photos and chats are all fair game if they’re from Hotmail, Microsoft, Google, or Skype. Unless you’re sending your nudes to your online lover in encrypted files via the Deepweb, the government knows you think putting your webcam boob shots in sepia is classy and vintage.

What’s next? We have a few places we think the NSA and PRISM could gather more data to complete our government versions of OK Cupid profiles:

  • GrubHub
  • PiperLime
  • Jimmy John’s Online Delivery
  • Domino’s Pizza Tracker
  • Sky Mall
  • Kindle
  • Babeland
  • LensCrafters
  • Crate & Barrel
  • Cracker Barrel

So beware, everybody. The NSA is your roommate pretending to be sleeping while you cry at your mom. She’s awake and can hear EVERYTHING, and don’t think she won’t tell everyone on your floor about your little gas problem, either. And from now on, if you don’t want some bureaucrat seeing your boobs, better send those sexts via carrier pigeon.

Image by Devin Rochford.

 
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