Have you ever wondered if your life is being monitored by others, and on June 5, 2013, the front page of the British newspaper The Guardian reported a scandal that shocked the world.
The outbreak of this scandal made the United States painstakingly manage in the international community, and the image of "freedom first" was completely shattered, and for a time, all countries in the world and even allies of the United States expressed strong dissatisfaction.
This was the American "Prism Project" that was sensational in the world at that time.
Fast forward to May 2013, when an exotic face appeared in a hotel in Hong Kong, China, but the man's whereabouts were uncertain, and from the time he entered the hotel to the room, he did not leave the house for several days, let alone spoken to anyone.
Until one day, two reporters from the British "Guardian" knocked on the door of the mysterious man.
However, not long after the two reporters left, the "Prism Project" of the United States was forced to be made public, is this explosive news related to this mysterious person?
That's right, the mystery man is a former CIA employee, Edward Snowden.
Since the exposure of the US wiretapping scandal, this person has been the target of global arrest in the United States, and he seems to have evaporated in the world, no one can find him again, and some people even suspect that he is no longer alive.
It seems that the exposure of the "Prism Project" has indeed brought a huge impact to the United States.
Project Prism is actually part of the U.S. surveillance program Interstellar Wind, which has four projects, namely Prism, Nucleus, Main Road, and Dock.
The mission of the "Nuclear Program" is to intercept telephone calls and key information, the "Main Road Program" is responsible for telephone monitoring, and the "Dock Project" is responsible for Internet surveillance.
The "Prism Project", which was exposed, was mainly used for the interception of Internet information.
With the Prism Program, U.S. intelligence agencies can directly access the central servers of 9 Internet companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Apple to conduct in-depth monitoring of real-time communications and information stored on servers.
Surveillance data includes, e-mail, video, voice, etc., as long as you have used the above Internet company products, there is a chance that it will be collected by the United States.
Verizon in the United States has also been required to provide millions of users with private phone records to the NSA every day.
This also includes the length of personal calls, and even the location of the call, as well as the phone numbers of both parties to the call, must be monitored.
A top-secret plan was suddenly made public, and the United States was pushed to the forefront, involving many countries around the world, and China could not escape.
The program began in 2007 and was until it was discovered that it was performing top-secret network surveillance missions.
One document states that "the NSA's reports increasingly rely on the Prism project, which is the main source of its original materials".
As soon as this report came out, it caused an uproar in the outside world.
Citizens' Privacy Protection has strongly condemned it, saying that no matter how the Obama administration defends itself in the name of counterterrorism, no matter how many members of Congress or government departments support surveillance of the people, these programs seriously violate the basic rights of citizens.
You know, as early as 1776, Washington issued the Declaration of Independence, which emphasized that the "right to liberty" is a civil right that no one can deprive, and wrote this article into the founding instrument.
And the Americans in the eyes of the world have always been preaching how much they love freedom, and they are also keen to promote liberalism.
But the "Prism Project" that has come to light now is undoubtedly a blow to the face of americans, especially the face of the US government.
Because at this time, American citizens found that they had no imaginary freedom at all, and they were no different from citizens of other countries in the world, and they had been living under the silent surveillance of the United States.
What's more, they feel cheated!
In fact, in terms of surveillance, the United States can be regarded as a habitual offender.
At the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States simultaneously passed the National Security Act and established the first permanent intelligence agency in the United States, which is now the famous CIA.
Because under the influence of the cold war antagonistic atmosphere at that time, national security became the top priority of the United States at that time, and even the constitutional right to civil liberties had to be compromised.
At that time, the United States only wanted to let the intelligence agencies expand as much as possible to resist the threat posed by the Soviet Union, but soon the American people realized that something was wrong.
The intelligence agencies that have now been established to ensure national security are now a threat to themselves.
Because the mission of this agency is to spy and eavesdrop, they often secretly open citizens' e-mails, sneak into citizens' residential offices, and even copy or directly steal their personal data and trade secrets.
In addition to being busy monitoring their own citizens, they also have to monitor the world, which is certainly a commendable achievement from the perspective of U.S. intelligence agencies.
Despite sacrificing the freedom of their own people, they have made outstanding contributions to the security of the United States, and this intelligence has indeed helped the United States to sit on the hegemonic throne of the real and online dual worlds.
But at this time, the sober Americans are no longer willing to continue to sacrifice their freedom rights for the so-called national interest, so the eavesdropping behavior of the United States has begun to relent.
But with the outbreak of 9-11, the United States began to look around the world for terrorists, perhaps as an excuse, and it was true that their surveillance program finally came in handy again.
This is why the Prism Project was born.
The "Prism Project" was exposed, and the United States, which preached liberalism all over the world, was brutally beaten in the face, and even the American people could not look at it.
The United States uses this plan to spy on the intelligence of various countries without any bottom line, which is a very important means for the United States to occupy the superpower throne for a long time.
He used his monopoly position in network technology to sell his country's network technology to countries around the world, and then through these exported network technologies, he obtained ulterior motive top-secret intelligence.
At this point, the United States has always thought that what it does is watertight, but the truth is that even the most perfect plan, once it violates moral axioms, will be eaten back.
Like the reason given by scandal whistleblower Snowden, even if you didn't do anything wrong, your country still doesn't trust you, and maybe you just make a wrong phone call and they will investigate all your information.
Once you're connected to the Internet, they'll look at your machines, and no matter how you protect yourself, you can't be safe, which is what the U.S. says about national security.
But in fact, this practice made the people more insecure, so Snowden, as an American citizen, eventually preferred to flee for life and expose the scandal.
The exposure of the Prism Project shocked the world, but it was not so difficult to digest, because it was just another time that the United States refreshed their lower limit.
The United States has always been despicable in its methods, and in order to achieve its ends, they do not care at all whether the process is legitimate, they talk about freedom all day long, and even brazenly incite human rights issues in other countries.
In private, however, they hold the freedom of the people of the whole world in their hands, and this kind of behavior should be spurned.
Through Snowden's dictation, we learned that the United States had even invaded two large Chinese mobile communication network companies in order to obtain top-secret information about the Chinese military.
Later, fearing that Huawei had implanted backdoors in its devices, the NSA attacked and eavesdropped on Huawei's network and obtained customer profiles, internal training files, internal emails, and even individual product source codes.
If it were not for Snowden's revelations, the world would not have imagined that the United States would be so bold.
However, just after the exposure of the "Prism Project" in the United States, some European countries are still unwilling to learn their lessons, and they have chosen to continue to act as vassals of the United States to strangle Chinese high-tech enterprises.
And this kind of behavior will only make them suffer from the United States again.