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by declan 13y ago
I reached these conclusions as a result of my own reporting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/ I note you didn't actually allege I&
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by declan 13y ago
Um, the above is the Sunday School version of U.S. politics. In reality, the executive has a tremendous amount of discretion. Just look at the Obama admin unilaterally extending an Obamacare deadline that was set by Congress -- and which di
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by declan 13y ago
I'm not aware of any false statements that Snowden made, or any doctoring of the NSA documents he provided. (Senators and other officials have confirmed the legitimacy of at least some, as has a federal indictment.) But journalists can
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by declan 13y ago
Where's the lie? PRISM is the name of an NSA software package used to collate data the agency receives under a well-known section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But because of poor reporting and unintentional errors, t
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by declan 13y ago
Except it isn't: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589012-38/nsa-surveillan...
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by declan 13y ago
I suspect you've been watching too many spy movies. If a Microsoft employee surreptitiously "captured" user data when asked by the NSA, he would be guilty of multiple federal felonies and subject to significant civil liabilit
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by declan 13y ago
Untrue. AT&T and Verizon never denied NSA involvement: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589012-38/nsa-surveillan...
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by declan 13y ago
Vijay is, as usual, correct. It's typically better to rely on mathematics than the law to protect privacy. But I would add one thing, and that is that court decisions can be influenced by public opinion. And if public opinion turns sig
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by declan 13y ago
It's happening. My article from May disclosed that Google is litigating two NSL cases against the Justice Department: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57587005-38/justice-depart...
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by declan 13y ago
Nah. The third option is that both are telling the truth. Microsoft doesn't do end-to-end encryption so it can be forced to turn over the cleartext. (Skype calls go through MS servers in unencrypted form, and Outlook/Hotmail messa
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by declan 13y ago
How many consumer-focused Internet companies encrypt user data in storage by default -- in a way that the company itself cannot decrypt given a lawful court order? (I'm not talking here about transit HTTPS/TLS encryption.) I don&#
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Microsoft: U.S. Constitution is 'suffering' from NSA secrecy(news.cnet.com)
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Gun rights groups join new challenge to NSA surveillance(news.cnet.com)
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by declan 13y ago
I think that's a good way to put it. Yes.
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by declan 13y ago
If you have evidence they're lying, I'd be delighted to hear it. Otherwise I'll believe them over a random HN comment, thanksverymuch.
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by declan 13y ago
No, the Internet companies have said that's not what's happening. Facebook has said, for instance, it has received a total of requests covering 18,000 accounts over a 6-month period, which includes NSA requests and local cops tryi
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by declan 13y ago
Except that advocacy groups the HN crowd generally likes also draft legislation for the congresscritters to introduce. Here's the Electronic Frontier Foundation's draft bill -- "Initial Improvements to Aaron's Law for Co
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by declan 13y ago
If you have evidence that the "firewall, networking, and SAN gear" used by Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc. have supersecret government backdoors, we'd be delighted if you could share it with us.
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by declan 13y ago
That is true, but numbers matter. There's a big difference between the NSA serving 10 FAA702/FISA orders a year on Microsoft for Skype intercepts vs. 10 million. It's targeted vs. wholesale surveillance. We know from companie
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by declan 13y ago
Perhaps, but the problem is that the FedGov's equipment may vacuum up far more than it's supposed to, or disrupt the network, or do a MITM attack not authorized by the court order, etc. From my article: "A federal magistrate
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How the U.S. is forcing Internet firms' hands on surveillance(news.cnet.com)
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NSA docs boast: Now we can wiretap Skype video calls(news.cnet.com)
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NSA Senate oversight bill may handcuff U.S. companies(news.cnet.com)
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Judge: EFF lawsuit alleging illegal NSA spying may continue(news.cnet.com)
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Snowden: I wanted to "correct the excesses of government"(news.cnet.com)
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by declan 13y ago
My article was, I believe, the first to rebut those accusations: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of... I just happened to be reading that Greenwald article around the same time I saw your resp
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Facebook's outmoded Web crypto opens door to NSA spying(news.cnet.com)
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Surveillance 'partnership' between NSA and telcos points to AT&T, Verizon(news.cnet.com)
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by declan 13y ago
I was amused to see your claim of the FAA "increas[ing]" oversight appearing within a few hours of the Guardian's article on the latest NSA disclosures. It says precisely the opposite: that the FAA "relaxed surveillance
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by declan 13y ago
I didn't think it was controversial to claim that the PAA and FAA have similar language. Here's one section from both bills (Sec. 702 in the FAA and 105B in the PAA) authorizing warrantless surveillance: http://thomas.l

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