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“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
by 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.