NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

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  1. caspian

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    What is this back door, exactly? Is it a legal loophole that allows them to collect data without a warrant?
     
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    From https://standagainstspying.org/:
     
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    "Greenwald Delays Biggest Snowden Story Yet Over Government Claims

    The Snowden leak that journalist Glenn Greenwald has described as the biggest story yet was delayed prior to publication this week, after the U.S. government made last-minute claims about the forthcoming disclosure....

    Greenwald, now heading up First Look Media’s The Intercept as a founding editor, has been telling the world for months “the biggest stories [have yet] to be reported,” including a list of individuals actively targeted by the U.S. intelligence community for surveillance.

    “One of the big questions when it comes to domestic spying is, ‘Who have been the NSA’s specific targets?’” Greenwald told the Sunday Times. “Are they political critics and dissidents and activists? Are they genuinely people we’d regard as terrorists? What are the metrics and calculations that go into choosing those targets and what is done with the surveillance that is conducted? Those are the kinds of questions that I want to still answer.”

    Greenwald finally issued a long-awaited publication date of midnight Tuesday, but followed up a short time later with a tweet announcing a new delay.

    “After three months working on our story, [the United States government] today suddenly began making new last-minute claims which we intend to investigate before publishing,” Greenwald said.

    No further updates have been issued by Greenwald or the Intercept, and a live Reddit AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) session with Greenwald and fellow Intercept writer Murtaza “Maz” Hussain scheduled to take place after publication has also been put on hold."

    Full Story:

    http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/02/greenwald-delays-biggest-snowden-story-yet-over-government-claims/
     
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    from Schneier's same blog post:

    Yes, this IS very disturbing. But NOT very surprising:
    VPN & the NSA
     
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    funny comment posted at Schneier's blog

     
  18. lotuseclat79

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    The NSA Does Something Right.

    -- Tom
     
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    From that source code:
    I remember a few threads about TAILs on this forum as well... :)
     
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    I had a hunch this was the case. People using VPNs and such would be more closely looked at than those who did not. What surprises me is that it merely tracks based on IP.

    I would have bet quite a lot of money that it would employ more sophisticated traffic analysis and browser fingerprinting. I just wonder if this is really all it uses to track. It almost seems as though they don't even know who the ip is assigned to by the ISP? This seems difficult to believe. As massive as Prism is, I can't see how it can use such simplistic tracking.
     
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    Report: NSA targeted German privacy activist.

    -- Tom
     
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    NSA targets the privacy-conscious (5 web pages) by von J. Appelbaum, A. Gibson, J. Goetz, V. Kabisch, L. Kampf, L. Ryge

    -- Tom
     
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    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/dear-nsa-privacy-fundamental-right-not-reasonable-suspicion

    Though honestly I don't think there's ever been MORE people interested in Linux, or Tails, or Tor than compared to the years before the first Snowden stuff appeared (so singling out people interested in such things would be a large amount of people to target). In before someone finds something from them that declares Linux a communist plot to disrupt America's software economy. :rolleyes:
     
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    The Glen Greenwald Big Story Squash Connection ??

    The timing of the release of this story is very interesting. If you recall, a few days ago Glen Greenwald ,who has been working for the past three months on what he calls the biggest story yet - about who and how the NSA decides to target for special targeted surveillance, tweeted that the story would be published yesterday in his new publication. However, yesterday morning he tweeted that the story had been delayed by last minute information from the government he felt should be studied before releasing his story.

    While some versions of today's story being discussed here now suspect that it indicates a second source other than Snowden, the timing of it's release is undoubtedly related to the last minute pressure applied on Greenwald to delay or prevent the publication of his story which was to cover similar, if not identical , subject matter.

    (My sympathies to all members of this Forum who have used TOR. The NSA has a record of all the Porn Sites and pages and everything else you have looked at or said or written through electronic communications. "Anyone who is determined to be using Tor is also targeted for long-term surveillance and retention." http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/are-you-targeted-nsa. This reads like a sick joke. If you seek the privacy guaranteed by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights you are suspect. How sick is that?)

    As Bugs Bunny would say: "What a revolting development this is."

    NB: The quote was also used frequently by William Bendix in The Life Of Riley" a 50's TV show, but it was actually Warner Brother's Daffy Duck who said it first and was used by other Warner Brothers cartoon characters. Wouldn't want anyone at the NSA to think I don't know my cartoon favorites. GOT THAT GUYSo_O?
     
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