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by hannibal5 13y ago
Average cell phone call duration has decreased into less than 2 minutes. Assuming that NSA compresses the stream under 2kbit/s, they could store 1 Billion phone calls for a year using 10 Petabytes of storage.
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Through a Murky PRISM (cnas.org)
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Many SAP programs are very technical in nature. For example, technicians working with GPS satellites, nukes or IT infrastructure may need access to compartmented information.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
You can't do much sensitive stuff without systems administrators knowing the secrets, unless you want to do the actual work by yourself. To have access to all the stuff he has, he must have top-secret classification and he might be be
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by hannibal5 13y ago
What has happened to citizen disobedience in America? What would happen if 1000-5000 people who have been served NSL would come out at same day. Many of them working in big companies.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
What these documents refer to: 1. Criminal investigations within US. 2. National security investigations when they need NSL. 3. Criminal investigations outside US when foreign government officials contact Google. There is no mention of the
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by hannibal5 13y ago
This has already been cleared up in my opinion. Documents show different program called Upstream that is used for transparently recording data. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Secret court orders only apply for data related to US citizens. FISA allows warrantless surveillance of foreign powers. The amount of warrantless data these companies give out is unknown. >The presentation claims Prism was introduced to
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by hannibal5 13y ago
>The presentation claims Prism was introduced to overcome what the NSA regarded as shortcomings of Fisa warrants in tracking suspected foreign terrorists. It noted that the US has a "home-field advantage" due to housing much of
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by hannibal5 13y ago
You can't forbid people or companies from revealing contact attempts if they have not signed any NDA's.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
I think the most straight forward solution for most foreign countries would be to insist that Google, Facebook etc. set up their servers within those countries and limit the amount of data they can transmit to US. Small countries can't
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Verizon is not mentioned in that PRISM document. Phone record tapping is different issue withing the domestic spying program and Obama has already admitted it.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
How do we realistically expect companies and government to react for these revelations if they would turn out to be true? Is it realistic to assume that they go "Oh, you caught us, here is what we are doing"? PRISM is not system h
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by hannibal5 13y ago
This is not the PRISM/US-984XN. This is decision support system for DHS with same name.
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Considering that PRISM is secret government intelligence operation, it should be clear that those who participate can't reveal that they are part of it. I mean, if for example Google is participating, would anybody expect Larry Page ju
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by hannibal5 13y ago
"Obviously we need to be careful here, but if that's the wording that was used, PRISM could be just that voluntary system to give easier access to NSA requested data." Isn't that exactly what the leaked PowerPoints and o
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They can prove it. Comprehensive independent security audits managed by well known privacy and human rights organizations. Considering the scale of Google they should have number of people auditing them all the time.
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Those goole reports are for regular law enforcement requests. They have nothing to do with spying that happens in the name of national intelligence.