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Um... surely this has to be a spoof. "Select foreignness factor"?? really? The user interface and way this is done just seems to amateur hour to believe this i
by mattbarrie 13y ago
Um... surely this has to be a spoof. "Select foreignness factor"?? really?
The user interface and way this is done just seems to amateur hour to believe this is actually true
- mattbarrie 13y agoThe numbers seem way off and too keystone cop to be true. 20 terabytes is not large for the NSA. It can search BCC?? Only the sender has them. so everything would have to be collected at each ISP (which isn't impossible).. but I think the guardian has been trolled.
- mattbarrie 13y agoI'm calling this a troll.
- mattbarrie 13y agoIf you or I was in charge of the NSA there would not be a visual basic interface or a select foreignness dropdown. I'm calling bullshit on this.
- jlgreco 13y agoWait, are you talking and agreeing with yourself?
- falk 13y agoIn the PRISM related documents they used that exact term, "foreignness". http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/bombshell-report-nsa-and-fbi-tapping-directly-into-tech-companies-servers/276633/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/bombsh...
- ihsw 13y agoIf you're using Gmail then Google sends your email, so Google knows your BCC lines.
- el_zorro 13y agoKeep in mind that this was from 2008.
- eterm 13y agoThat's 20TB per site. Who knows how many collection sites they have?
- noir_lord 13y agoSays in the full slides on guardian over 500 sites (this was 2008), I wonder how many they have now..
- w_t_payne 13y agoUmm ... hello? Defence contractors anybody? In one sense, it is amateur hour ... but if you buy enough hours from enough amateurs ...