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PRISM is precisely a submission & storage system for data requested via warrants. People have the impression that it's a backdoor, but that's not what the Snowd
by dralley 3y ago
PRISM is precisely a submission & storage system for data requested via warrants. People have the impression that it's a backdoor, but that's not what the Snowden docs actually described it as.
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- mrguyorama 3y agoThe "backdoor", if any, would only be the rubber stamp courts that allow pretty broad warrants for plenty of dumb things, but that could absolutely be fixed if half the country didn't totally buy into "I have nothing to hide" bullshit, and were as militant about defending the 4th amendment as they were the 2nd, but I guess the inalienable right to privacy just isn't as cool as putting a hole in a steel target 100 yards away with a machine.