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You don't have to imagine how Prism works, as it has already been described in decent detail in a number of articles: http://theweek.com/article/index/245360/s

• jiggy2011 13y ago
  Those don't seem to really expain how , why or when it is used.
  • brown9-2 13y ago
    Ambinder's article describes it as a piece of software that would be used daily to view info collected from many sources.
  • omegant 13y ago
    In "task force black", a book about how the SAS special forces helled fight alqaeda in Irak, they talk how they had all the cellphone network controlled and each time they collected a mobile they tracked their calls and that way they localized other terrorists with more mobiles. It was pretty useful in that situation. For example the top level of alqaeda never used mobiles or radios but eventually they had people around them who did.