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Please let us know how it has been debunked.
by dismal2 12y ago
Please let us know how it has been debunked.
- lern_too_spel 12y agoThe NY Times published a correct description of PRISM very shortly after Greenwald's published his insane misread. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling-concede-to-government-surveillance-efforts.html?_r=0 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-compani... This description matches the declassified PRISM documents, the description in Snowden's leaked slides, US law, the miniscule price tag in Snowden's slides, and the description of a specific PRISM integration I heard from one of the implementers (possibly one interviewed in the nytimes story).
- dismal2 12y agoI believe he is referring to XKeyscore, not PRISM, which is as insane as it sounds, unless you believe the NSAs denial.
- lern_too_spel 12y agoNo, he is very clearly referring to Greenwald's PRISM fantasy. From the article: "Caught red-handed last year making petabytes of personal data available to the U.S. intelligence community through the PRISM program...."
- dismal2 12y agoYou are arguing semantics and I'm talking about what the NSA is actually capable of. Please read this paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore#Capabilities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore#Capabilities
- lern_too_spel 12y agoYou are arguing about a program that has nothing to do with Assange's thesis that Google is an arm of the US State Department. This isn't merely semantics.
- valas 12y agoThe original story tries to implicate Google in opening their servers for "full take" data feed. XKeyscore was a program to analyse data siphoned from wiretaps. This is what caused that infamous ppt slide "SSL Removed Here ;-)" which, among other reasons, caused Google to start encrypting all of the inter-data center links.