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For me, this was a really unsatisfying answer. Maybe the question should have been more specific, but I took it to relate to the PRISM programme and the specifi

For me, this was a really unsatisfying answer. Maybe the question should have been more specific, but I took it to relate to the PRISM programme and the specific technology that provided direct access to data at the companies involved. His reply seemed to focus on the policies (or lack thereof), with an example relating to call logs (which I already assumed would be provided by some (S)FTP feed from the carriers and bulk loaded into a database anyway).

marshray 13y ago
Maybe he doesn't know how every server is configured. Why would he be expected to? If one data feed uses a fiber tap and another uses a daily sftp transfer, does it really matter if some/most/all of Americans' communications is ending up in a database to be queried by analysts today and god-knows-who 30 years from now?