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But 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 handle

But 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 ago
Yea, it strikes me as ridiculously inefficient compared to forcing them via law.
- res0nat0r 13y ago
  Much 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?