Tuesday, 11. June 2013
Topic: SECURITY - on June 11, 2013 at 4:02:00 PM CEST
KEEP CALM and Carry On: PRISM itself is not a big deal
Analysis PRISM, the top secret US National Security Agency web communications and user data collection program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden last Friday, and targeted on nine top US web service providers, would seem unlikely to be the total, tyrannical surveillance behemoth reporters first assumed.
That’s because its numbers, as published, just don’t add up.
The Guardian may also have missed a potentially significant scoop buried within the PRISM revelations – apparent confirmation that about the time in 2011 that Microsoft acquired Skype for $7bn, the U.S. government also acquired a back way in to the
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