"Prism Gate" incident repeats? The United States uses the network to monitor the world, and Russia establishes a backup network

After Snowden exposed Prism Gate in 2013, the entire American society fell into an uproar. The impact of this incident on the US national security agency and Internet security topics continues to this day. If the 9/11 incident exposed the fact that the United States intelligence agencies are lined with mountains, lack of communication and coordination, and compete for power, then Prism Gate will undoubtedly completely expand the US national intelligence agencies in the name of counter-terrorism, and ultimately have the personal rights of American citizens. And the shameless infringement of Internet privacy in countries around the world has been exposed to the public.

Prism Gate exposed the large-scale eavesdropping and surveillance behavior of the United States at home and abroad. After the 9/11 incident, the US intelligence agencies, under the banner of strengthening anti-terrorism supervision, reported to the government every year The demand for tens of billions of dollars in funding expanded rapidly. At its peak, the number of official personnel alone reached more than 100,000, and the so-called informants under the core employees were too many to count.

The U.S. National Security Agency has inexplicable partnerships with high-tech companies such as IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, and sometimes even directly uses the technology and equipment of these companies for monitoring. The target includes foreign leaders, national citizens, even business leaders and decision makers in many important sectors. With Snowden’s exposure, a huge behind-the-scenes institution that can use high-tech for all-round monitoring emerged, which made people shudder. This not only triggered a resistance in the United States, but also greatly damaged the United States’ international image. Many countries doubt the true intentions of the United States.

However, 6 years later, the social impact caused by this exposure does not seem to be gradually forgotten. Reuters recently released news that they recently reviewed more than 10,000 secret documents of the U.S. government and found that the U.S. government not only implemented large-scale surveillance on its own, but also helped the UAE build a project called the Crow Project to facilitate the UAE to use the country. Intelligence agencies conduct Internet surveillance.

When it is very interesting, the UAE, like the United States, used to ask the U.S. to teach experience in the name of anti-terrorism. However, after obtaining specific technologies, the UAE has clearly learned to draw inferences: Using the technology taught in the United States, the UAE intelligence agency can not only sneak into the personal computer, mailbox, and address book of a target user to read evidence and information, but also directly investigate the people's situation in a certain area before a major incident occurs. After Qatar applied for the right to host the World Cup, the UAE even hacked into various phone numbers and accounts of FIFA officials to monitor whether they spread unfavorable comments on Carter's hosting of the World Cup.

This kind of operation directly leads the topic to another area, that is, in addition to monitoring its own people, Internet powers are likely to use the Internet to monitor other countries to achieve Certain political and military purposes. In fact, although the United States issued corresponding laws after the exposure of Prism Gate in 2015 to strengthen the approval of surveillance projects, many of these involve the infringement of the rights of American citizens, but do not involve transnational surveillance. Once upon a time, access to electricity and the Internet was one of the signs of a region’s modernization, but also with the Prism Gate, many countries began to realize the insecurity of the Internet itself, and some countries even chose to disconnect the Internet directly before major social events occurred.

For example, not long ago, Iran triggered a nationwide demonstration because of the oil price issue. The Iranian government directly chose to disconnect the Internet and chose to isolate it from the entire world. Because Iran has long known that the United States often uses Internet technology to manipulate foreign public opinion and even directly participates in command. And this year, the Russian government has also conducted a drill to verify that even when the Internet is cut off, it can also activate the spare internal LAN developed by itself to maintain normal communication requirements, so as to reduce the possible losses in cyber warfare. To say that the real reasons for these actions naturally involve the use of the Internet to conduct "cyber wars."

There is no doubt that the United States has the world’s leading advantages in Internet technology and equipment. It is difficult to meet opponents in operating system and hardware design and production. The United States actually monitors the global Internet. strength. As the world's leading Internet power, China should also pay attention to the security of the Internet, build its own network for filing, and develop its own systems and equipment in order to avoid US surveillance and manipulation.