On Nov 5, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Dean Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wrong. See, the GCHQ has been surveilling US citizens using taps, and the NSA > has been surveilling UK citizens using taps. Both are allowed to use covert > mechanisms to surveil foreigners. Then they trade data sets with each other. > > This is state surveillance, but since it’s quite reasonably “illegal”, it > also requires secrecy. Securing the transit links such that a “legal order” > is required would significantly impact the interception.
Except that its clear that they already HAVE gotten "legal" orders for such surveillance. E.g. AT&T secret room, GCHQ's deal with Level 3, etc... -- Nicholas Weaver it is a tale, told by an idiot, [email protected] full of sound and fury, 510-666-2903 .signifying nothing PGP: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/data/nweaver_pub.asc
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