On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:32:10PM +1200, Andrew Lewis wrote: > PRISM isn't really even that illegal, as long as they discard communications > considered to be "American".
So, as long as every TLA world wide does, and they all share the information, everything is all right? Not so fast. > The NSA has been listening to radio signals from all over the world for > years, from military bases strategically positioned to pickup radio signals > of interest, amongst other types of communication data. This is really just > the extension of similar ideas, to a new form of communications, the novel > part of the whole thing is that it leverages the fact that so many tech > companies are located in the US and that a ton of the internet backbone is > run through America. Why does the NSA operate these dedicated fiber splice subs, you think? -- 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