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This article is about 10x better in terms of explaining XKEYSCORE than the mess which is XKEYSCORE's Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore#
by waihtis 6y ago
This article is about 10x better in terms of explaining XKEYSCORE than the mess which is XKEYSCORE's Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore#Workings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore#Workings
- StanislavPetrov 6y agoIts almost like Wikipedia is largely run by an army of Philip Cross like people/agents whose goal is to manage the information that people see. https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/ https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/
- jorblumesea 6y agoIf all we have to go off of is the slides and rumors, it's still not super clear exactly how it works. Even for HN users, which are largely engineers, it can be confusing. If you're a wikipedia editor, probably more so.
- waihtis 6y agoAgreed, though the big thing missing from the Wikipedia article is the root data collection method - cable tapping - which makes all the difference in explaining an ubiquitous surveillance system.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThe reason the Wikipedia article is so confusing is that it has to explain Greenwald's and Snowden's explanation of XKEYSCORE, which was wrong.