It's surreal to watch all of this old stuff get drudged up here and elsewhere. I almost wish I watched mainstream news to see how much of this depth is covered

It's surreal to watch all of this old stuff get drudged up here and elsewhere. I almost wish I watched mainstream news to see how much of this depth is covered or if it's just PRISM and not anything about how bullshit FISA warrants are or how crazy insane National Security Letters are (and how many hundreds of thousands of them are issued)... OR that they regularly wiretap the internet. Between: - this (which we've known about) - the new leaked slide that indicates they do massively, widely wiretap fiber - PRISM (which I suspect were simply the dates that the companies brought up infrastructure to be able to quickly and easily comply with FISA warrants. Which means "direct access" is true, but it also means that "we were forced to make it easy to give the government what they want as soon as they need it") They basically have real time access to HTTP data (and HTTPS if a CA is compromised or controlled by them [is it really even that crazy of a theory at this stage]). They also can get organized, categorized access to my data with a FISA warrant (please, read up, they are as rubber-stamp as they're referenced in these articles). Sigh.