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> Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes large beams of data and helps the government find discrete, manageable strands of information. I don't think t
by raldi 13y ago
> Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes large beams of data and helps the government find discrete, manageable strands of information.
I don't think that's the basis of the name at all.
Much more likely, the rainbow part represents all the sources they pull data from, each so different from the next, and the white part represents the single unified feed it provides the NSA agent using it.
- brown9-2 13y agoAgreed. Especially since Prism just sounds like integration/viewing software.
- blaabjerg 13y agoWithout thinking a whole lot about it I had assumed prisms were used in the optical splitters/couplers central to the program. That doesn't seem to be the case.
- return0 13y agoit might be an acronym, like PRivacy Invasion Super Machine or sth.