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I thought PRISM wasn't covert. Companies were compelled to allow them to install their sniffing hardware, it was all above-board. Snowden even leaked an interna
by hannasanarion 8y ago
I thought PRISM wasn't covert. Companies were compelled to allow them to install their sniffing hardware, it was all above-board. Snowden even leaked an internal slideshow with a nice timeline of when each tech company joined the program.
- endorphone 8y agoParts of that whole expose were covert. In the case of Google we know by tapping fiber connections that they had between data centers (as sseth mentioned, using foreign intelligence peers to do an end run around legal protections), which was on Google owned fiber, theoretically entirely "in-house", so Google transferred it unencrypted. I believe they called this operation "Muscular". After the fiasco Google started assuming everything was hostile.
- gowld 8y agoPRISM was an overt program (to the data stewards, not to the public) for processing FISA warrants and the like. Other NSA programs that Snowden revealed were covert hacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...