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They were probably exaggerating but it’s well known that American agencies can and will extort whatever they need from any American company and the organisation
by phantompeace 3y ago
They were probably exaggerating but it’s well known that American agencies can and will extort whatever they need from any American company and the organisation wouldn’t even be legally allowed to disclose that it even happened through secrecy and gag orders.
- acdha 3y ago“Well known” in conspiracy circles. You’re referring to national security letters and, no, those cannot compel “whatever they need”: it’s limited to release of transactional data, not payload: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter Part of why the news about MUSCULAR was so shocking was that the Buah-era NSA was attacking the fiber connections between American tech companies’ data centers, because they did NOT have a legal way to get that level of information.
- DANmode 3y agoIf that was shocking, put your rubber gloves on for this read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disclosures#Timeline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_di...
- acdha 3y agoYeah, that page is one of the places you can read about the program I mentioned. I picked that one because it wasn’t news that the NSA spied on people outside of the United States, but a lot of Americans did not expect them to use the same tactics against American companies on US soil.