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The New Yorker's Mayer is paraphrasing an anonymous source, which she then counter-points in the very next sentence of the article with a quote from NSA histori
by krek 13y ago
The New Yorker's Mayer is paraphrasing an anonymous source, which she then counter-points in the very next sentence of the article with a quote from NSA historian Matthew Aid, who says: “The resistance to ThinThread was just standard bureaucratic politics. ThinThread was small, cost-effective, easy to understand, and protected the identity of Americans.” [1]
That's what Binney and Drake have said all along.
[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer?printable=true¤tPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_...
- tptacek 13y agoI think if you read my comments you'll find that I'm not denying that ThinThread had a goal of protecting the identity of Americans. The problem is that the collections programs underpinning PRISM and XKEYSCORE also have that goal. The problem isn't the technology.