What surprised me is how Guardian and Washington Post cover this "story". The Power Point slides looks laughable to me. Maybe I should interpret "direct access to servers of firms" as like when I'm typing this email I am also having *a direct access* to Gmail's servers.
This either a ploy by some "pro-privacy" extremist or a prank by somebody who's tired of these hyperbole privacy outcries. 2013/6/6 Peter Eckersley <peter.eckers...@gmail.com> > Of course, I was reading to fast and leaning to heavily on control+f. > > Anyway, 20 million annually seems like a very low number by the usual > standards of efficiency in Department of Defense programs. But the NSA > might already have a data storage, processing and query architecture in > place that is either not included in this budget or only included on a > marginal cost basis. > > > On 6 June 2013 16:45, Peter Eckersley <peter.eckers...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Where did you get the $20m budget number from? I can't find it in any of >> the stories or attached materials. But I could be missing something. >> >> >> On 6 June 2013 16:14, x z <xhzh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> doesn't seem real to me. especially the part "*direct access to servers >>> * of firms ...", and with an annual budget of measly $20m. >>> >>> >>> 2013/6/6 Michael Carbone <mich...@accessnow.org> >>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> Guardian: >>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data >>>> >>>> WaPo: >>>> >>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story_1.html >>>> >>>> some of the slides (haven't seen the full ppt drop): >>>> >>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/ >>>> >>>> Participating companies in chronological order: Microsoft, Yahoo, >>>> Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, Apple. Dropbox >>>> apparently next up. >>>> >>>> - -- >>>> Michael Carbone >>>> Manager of Tech Policy & Programs >>>> Access | https://www.accessnow.org >>>> mich...@accessnow.org | PGP: 0x81B7A13E >>>> PGP Fingerprint: 25EC 1D0F 2D44 C4F4 5BEF EF83 C471 AD94 81B7 A13E >>>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>> >>>> iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRsQujAAoJEDH9usG3Jz33lFoP/1vRZ6qTJhlvShNtfktlSB9x >>>> qxlHoFJBu4DV6YzEGPNnshb+hRiTk4iC+bksmBIIvZ5WZVVUUR3japU7QtOMhKtr >>>> +YAkxlStumySUBPEyx2t83VDv2d2yYhKxPDELVhs4lxeY+IS1pxN7wv3SulkI5qM >>>> 1UciTdL1ok4t9jerWQf/g9wxmWm5GNF7hVHMQu3uI7lYgCIIupoWggj43nGu2dYR >>>> CUQ6j+e6H7KpusabNx8DlDujCw1/Pfxb/kkvz5tT9tJfZucZ26sMpjJZTDKWHCfs >>>> TITJAUQg0g7eAoh5ehzxGBamjiPwKwXdfomg2QP9f6Rq4WCh2EBsBL0grbMA6K2e >>>> Y83J+2oInCdnpxDTvQfk41uFdh2awg7QPrndt9s9XwOY5ShUj+BH4L/6dkGtZG4r >>>> iadK/JD7YU5cgI+m4HQab7+b/CSB2P4a+57XP4Hfz7aNYfe+jPjBJbEl46Srnbg2 >>>> 5xCcgYGJQSoGGvxCDJYLwjZdFo/t7XFspCrfcuIMvKr9njVJgffeW+5qS0czqC9D >>>> vaNhS5TQ4O6pXsA2jTpbDyqNN/HbLXCupgLyUq9Kh+dYYUeaavwGQj/CwsMD0SKe >>>> CRykJUW1VTtu0BXbT86et47yAldsdYc/fuhnoONWDCP5WOu9he/SXDfQELeyH/KG >>>> FRpkJRX7ijLlTySwbbpD >>>> =NvtB >>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>> -- >>>> Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by >>>> emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings >>>> at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by >>> emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings >>> at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Peter > > > > > -- > Peter > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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