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everybody's talking about the n_s_a_ story where apparently they're
collecting the telephone records or the twenty one million
america's that use verizon but on the same day there is an other giant
leaked and it comes from washington post that it's a very important story
and probably
eva larger violation of our rights
than what they're doing with the telephone carries a symbolism there
watch impose reports
the national security agency
and the f_b_i_ are tapping directly
into the central servers
of nine believe u_s_ internet companies
extracting oreo
video
photographs
emails
documents the connection logs that enable analysts the track a person's
movements
and contacts
overtime
well that's just about everything you do on the internet
if thought it was bad
they know who you're calling
let me know just about everything you're doing online
down to autograph at the photographs
ordeal video it's ever
an internal presentation
on a silicon valley operation
intended for senior analyst
and the essays signals intelligence directorate describe a new tools
as the most prolific contributor the president's daily briefing
in other words
they use this all the time
who do you see it on
it's called president russell bliss for program is called and they explained
there has been continued
exponential growth
in tasking
to face book and skype
according to forty one
prism slots
exponential growth
now which companies are quite pretty with the government on this
microsoft yahoo
face book
pal talk
farewell
you too
that's a pretty soon everyone was
now of course they'll say well we have to government makes us do it
well twitter doesn't
and output is incredibly public to begin with
but dade do not give information to the government in fact apple didn't for five
years
so for five years apparently thought no we don't
i'm i'm gonna give you the private information
of my use
they do now
who's at fault is that the government is that these companies i would say large
lisa government
i don't know to what degree they are compelling
these companies to do it but
this company should fight them anyway they should fight them in court it's not
like
golan face book don't have enough money
some like he couldn't stand up
consumers and their customers if they wanted to in court
is that they think will discover missed two powerful and i don't want to stand
up to them
the socom and again this is the washington post reporting this enough
fly by night operation is not some bloggers somewhere
and they have
factual slides used in these prism demonstrations
they continue explain
the silicon valley operation works alongside a parallel program
codename blarney
that gathers up metadata
address packets the vice signatures and the like
as a streams past choke points along the backbone
of the internet
now of course
from time to time these large internet companies will say all this whole idea
of a back door to the internet where we let the government see all of our
material censoring did keyless
except for the fact that we now know it's probably true
and they will make excuses from time to time twelve the information we pass
along
it's not necessarily identifiable with a specific person
was of course you act
now blarney seems to be metadata that is not attached to a specific individual
although it could give you an enormous amount of information and you connect
the dots rather easily but prism is something else that is where they are
literally looking into your skype calls and could get audiovideo
and even if things you're typing
but haven't yet sent
the first draft of any e-mail that u_n_ decided was a bad idea
in your race than ever set
it doesn't matter they already have it
are not the one saying it
its intelligence officials say in fact
finally the washington post quotes a career intelligence officer who says
they quite literally
can watch your ideas forum
as you try
how's that for big government
at how's that for a change
this is the guy that ran
on the idea
that he would not be civil liberties abuses as the bush administration had
transat
he took the civil liberties abuses of bush
and doubled and triple
as uh...
james bamford
covering n_s_a_ for a long time of the best reporters on this and said
he took the bush programs and put him on steroids
change on our side continuity on the inside
obama's not who you think he is