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If this were happening at the packet level, PRISM would need constant maintenance for each service, and a MUCH higher budget than $20mil a year. Think about it,
by ianhawes 13y ago
If this were happening at the packet level, PRISM would need constant maintenance for each service, and a MUCH higher budget than $20mil a year. Think about it, to be effective, you'd need to parse the format at which the data is sent. Formats and protocols change daily for all these services. And I highly doubt analysts are expected to look at pcap dumps to put together intelligence.
I think reality is that PRISM is nothing more than a parsing software for data dumps after NSA has legally obtained the data from the provider. And I'm willing to bet the other 37 slides show that.
- duaneb 13y agoThey might not be parsed, they could just be indexed and stored (think a time-aware google search for this data).
- ianhawes 13y agoBut still, NSA would need to know the entire IP range of all public facing servers, their purpose in relation to the service (for example, which IP range handles Gmail vs Search). Plus, if this were a store-it-and-forget-it situation, PRISM wouldn't be limited to the services it could support. Things just aren't adding up, here.
- duaneb 13y agoYea, it strikes me as ridiculously inefficient compared to forcing them via law.
- res0nat0r 13y agoMuch of this ISP / Tier 1 Network sniffing by Narus and other private tech companies is documented in James Bamfords' book about the NSA dating back to 2008. http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-Factory-Eavesdropping-America/dp/0307279391 http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-Factory-Eavesdropping-Ameri... It has been going on for a long time.
- VladRussian2 13y ago>to forcing them via law yep. Current law allows to force them to be silent about the wiretapping to hide it from public. One can see how a creative government lawyer can force them to publish a denying PR release as extent of the same legal requirement to hide the wiretapping from public. One have a choice what to believe - either NSA is lying in internal secret docs or companies like Google are legally forced to publicly deny their involvement. Hard choice?
- wildgift 13y agoMaybe it's not PRISM that's doing deep packet inspection.
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