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> The Prism program collects stored Internet communications based on demands made to Internet companies such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc. under Section 702 of
by higherpurpose 13y ago
> The Prism program collects stored Internet communications based on demands made to Internet companies such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
"Demands made to the companies". It looks to me like PRISM was a voluntary thing, even if the companies didn't know it was named PRISM.
If that's the case, and Apple's "bug" happened at the same time with their voluntary addition to PRISM, then the bug was actually a backdoor, and Apple knew about it.
- declan 13y agoPrism is as precisely as "voluntary" as the cops showing up with a search warrant at 5am and asking you nicely to open up "voluntarily", because, well, they have a nice 5.11 MiniRam Breaching Tool 50091 and your door looks very pretty and it would really be a shame to have to knock it off its hinges. Yes, that would be a real mess. See what I wrote on this last summer: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/