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Decoding America’s spies: What does the NSA’s cryptic memo really mean? Citizens illegally spied on again
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ROGER THAT!
Other than, you know, it’ll be a fantastic tool for our jackbooted oppressors, so they’ll just leave it going for now… just in case. 'Merica!
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Ok but what if the telecoms really did hand over data that wasn’t properly scoped?
Hanlon’s razor.
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The NSA is America’s friend enemy, frenemy. So say I.
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Decoding America’s spies: What does the NSA’s cryptic memo really mean? Citizens illegally spied on again
Decoding America’s spies: What does the NSA’s cryptic memo really mean?..
Too much data slurped in October, months after snoops vowed not to do that
Supposedly, NSA’s original charter forbids them from spying inside of the United States or on US citizens inside of the United States.
But that charter was classified so we will never know.
Here’s a short and simplified story about that agency’s beginnings.
By the way, this article is missing a lot of interesting and important details that could be published these days. But I’ll leave that research project to anybody who’s interested enough to do it themselves.
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Is this a weird test?
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I think cicada 3301 is back
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The gangsters of yesteryear had it right all along: stay off the effing phone! [add modern network cables by extension]
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Dear government agencies:
If you constantly go to work wondering why the American public hates you and doesn’t trust you,
SHIT LIKE THIS IS WHY.
Thanks and go die in a fire,
-The entire American population that doesn’t trust you
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My first thought too.
“Hey Bob, NSA wants info on TERRIST #1001 again.”
“Just use that report tool we wrote last year.”
“Okay”
I remember listening to Scott Sigler talk about how he did research for his novels and that for Infected he got the NSA info from an anonymous source which detailed the actual rooms where the PRISM taps would be. All that was in 2004 iirc, it’s wild how no one wants to talk about how this was known and really how brazen the NSA has been about it. It’s like they think they’re the only ones using these things. LOL
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Mark fell for the misleading headline.
The top comment on this story at Hacker News sums it up better than I could:
The title is super misleading. It has the NSA being the subject of the sentence, the entity doing the verb. If you read the document, it’s clear that the NSA followed the law in how they sent requests over to the phone companies, and a couple companies made errors in what they sent back. When NSA discovered this, they reported it through the proper channels. This is like, the opposite of nefarious action, guys. A better title would have the phone companies as the subject of the sentence. “Phone companies improperly sent data to the NSA for a second time, documents reveal.” Of course, being honest in the title wouldn’t misinform and scare people…
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