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Where is the OUTRAGE? WSJ Reports "75% of Americans Spied on" Reported from Un-named Sources!
Why are the Un-named Sources not being Hunted Down for Espionage against America? Who Leaked to the WSJ that this was going on during the Olympics and we don't know that it ended with that. So...is anyone going to go after the WSJ and hammer their Hard Drives into Oblivion?Shouldn't "WSJ" be held to same standards as what happened to the GUARDIAN?
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO ASK THIS!
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Latest Leak: NSA Can Spy On Almost Anything, Gets To Set Its Own Filters
from the and-another-shoe-drops dept
And, here we go again. This time, it's the WSJ journal with the scoop on NSA surveillance, and how the defenders of the NSA have been lying to us. Despite claims that the NSA was really only focused on foreign communications, the WSJ is reporting that it actually covers 75% of US internet traffic:
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The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say.
The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology, these people say.
The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology, these people say.
Basically, they're just revealing more details about the things that whistleblower Mark Klein revealed years ago: that the NSA has deals with the major telcos which scoop up a huge amount of internet traffic.
The programs, code-named Blarney, Fairview, Oakstar, Lithium and Stormbrew, among others, filter and gather information at major telecommunications companies. Blarney, for instance, was established with AT&T Inc., former officials say. AT&T declined to comment.
This filtering takes place at more than a dozen locations at major Internet junctions in the U.S., officials say.
This filtering takes place at more than a dozen locations at major Internet junctions in the U.S., officials say.
The WSJ report is wrong on one account, though. It claims that people believed that the NSA's filtering actually happened "where undersea or other foreign cables enter the country" but that's not true. Mark Klein made it clear that the NSA had machines directly on AT&T's property.
And, of course, it will come as no surprise that these programs that work directly with telcos to tap into full internet traffic aren't just about metadata:
...this set of programs shows the NSA has the capability to track almost anything that happens online, so long as it is covered by a broad court order.
[....] Inevitably, officials say, some U.S. Internet communications are scanned and intercepted, including both "metadata" about communications, such as the "to" and "from" lines in an email, and the contents of the communications themselves.
[....] Inevitably, officials say, some U.S. Internet communications are scanned and intercepted, including both "metadata" about communications, such as the "to" and "from" lines in an email, and the contents of the communications themselves.
This also shouldn't be a surprise. For all the talk of "metadata" it was always clear that the surveillance defenders were talking about this program only, which was the Patriot Act Section 215 "business records" program. But other programs, such as these listed above, were clearly about actual content as well.
MORE AT:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130820/18365124262/latest-leak-nsa-can-spy-almost-anything-gets-to-set-its-own-filters.shtml
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And I'd like to keep what little I have left.
& Rec !!!
Richard Pryor once told an all-too-real joke in the early '70s that he related to people of color and their interactions with the police: "If you're looking for justice, that's just what you'll find -- just us." Of course the joke is funny, but Pryor was making a valid point, one that is still valid now: the experience people of color routinely encounter with the police is vastly different from that of the average white person.
Link: http://dailyuw.com/archive/2001/05/16/imported/theres-no-justice-theres-just-us#.UhVKRdJjuSo
We all ******* now...
But either way, it's too much 
I never thought of doing that! 
Seventy-five percent of all traffic is sure what it looks like. I think at this point "Collect it All" is a pretty safe assumption when it comes to their efforts re: personal information.
Response to KoKo (Original post)
is the way it usually works.
If you can get more Govt. Funding to GO FOR IT! i.e. Full Capacity...why would you hold back. It means JOBS for this President (or the Bush Era Regime) in a lagging economy.
You can understand that...can't you?
sure is making you Demotarians look goofy
Ever heard of computing?
