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I don't think most people (programmers included) followed it in detail as closely as you. Care to elaborate on Snowden's misunderstanding or prism?
by kilgnad 4y ago
I don't think most people (programmers included) followed it in detail as closely as you. Care to elaborate on Snowden's misunderstanding or prism?
- lern_too_spel 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34510696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34510696
- samdcbu 4y agoDuring the first days of the Washington Post’s reporting on the Snowden documents, the outlet misreported the mechanism for how PRISM obtained it’s data. It was initially reported, seemingly based on Snowden’s misunderstanding of PRISM, that the NSA has a direct connection into the servers of Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. That wasn’t actually true, as the data for PRISM was obtained through Section 702 requests the FBI sent to tech companies which was a practice established in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.
- hulitu 4y ago> That wasn’t actually true, as the data for PRISM was obtained through Section 702 requests the FBI sent to tech companies which was a practice established in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. Nice. Not thrilling, but nice. I'm really sure that how they are working because i read it somewhere. /s Then again ? Why do they need to tape telecom operators ?