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I see a big potential benefit for the NSA to have a spy within google who simply manually pulls and relays info on people at th nsa's request... It doesn't have
by TomGullen 13y ago
I see a big potential benefit for the NSA to have a spy within google who simply manually pulls and relays info on people at th nsa's request... It doesn't have to be a full Api
- jpatokal 13y agoAccess to sensitive data is strictly controlled, logged and audited, often on a per-case basis ("I need read access to log X for 60 minutes to investigate bug Y"). Even if your hypothetical spy did manage to worm their way into the very, very select ranks of people who can access (say) Gmail data, he'd be busted as soon as the auditors spotted him accessing the files of people he has no reason to access.
- plywoodtrees 13y agoExtracting and sending it manually seems incompatible with the idea that they're doing this on a really massive scale. Also, forwarding all of everybody's gmail would be a lot of data transiting the network. Unexpected traffic equal to all of gmail's normal traffic could be noticed.