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These are all social networking services. Maybe, just maybe, this was tied to the PRISM program led by the NSA?
by zatkin 7y ago
These are all social networking services. Maybe, just maybe, this was tied to the PRISM program led by the NSA?
- ryanlol 7y agoMaybe, just maybe, this was tied to the space program at NASA? Tremendously unlikely, PRISM was something very different from this.
- londons_explore 7y agoPRISM would have had to migrate to methods like this with the rise in e2e encryption. I doubt they'd have written such shoddy and simple implant code though. At a minimum, they would have encrypted the data uploaded, since intelligence agencies love to steal data from other intelligence agencies, and sniffing wires I'm sure isn't unique to the USA.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoNo, PRISM had nothing to do with this at all. PRISM didn’t involve any sort of attack or offensive capability, and anything doing that would not be PRISM.
- ehsankia 7y agoWasn't PRISM mostly to spy on Americans? Most of the apps there aren't very popular in the US, and half of them are just straight up Chinese. Seems more like it would be a PRISM-like program but in some Asian country or China.
- ttyyuuooe 7y agoChinese companies would just give the data to the government. So there would be no need to spy on them.