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?
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