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Title: XKeyscore makes Prism seem tame
Post by: Gary on Aug 01, 2013, 08:46:37
The cover has been blown on an NSA program which collects data on "nearly everything a user does on the internet" even as the debate rages over the secretive US agency's mass surveillance of innocent people.

The XKeyscore program covers emails, social media activity and browsing history and is accessible to NSA analysts with little or no prior authorisation, according to a leaked presentation published by The Guardian today.

'They don't even have to know who you are to track you down'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/31/prism_put_in_the_shade_by_leak_about_even_more_powerful_snoop_tool/
Title: Re: XKeyscore makes Prism seem tame
Post by: Simon on Aug 01, 2013, 08:55:19
:wimp:
Title: Re: XKeyscore makes Prism seem tame
Post by: Gary on Aug 01, 2013, 08:58:45
so how many TV progtams like 'person of interest' and books like 1984 have come true in the last month or so...  :swoon:
Title: Re: XKeyscore makes Prism seem tame
Post by: mervl on Aug 01, 2013, 09:00:39
"We do because we can". Don't we all?
Title: Re: XKeyscore makes Prism seem tame
Post by: pctech on Aug 05, 2013, 21:41:46
What the inside of an NSA data centre looks like

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/07/31/what-the-inside-of-an-nsa-data-center-looks-like/