NSA denies discussing Merkel phone surveillance with Obama

[ELVIS]

If you knew how to read, you would see that baru substantiates each anti-Obomba post he or she (or it) makes...

[jhale667]

"If I knew how to read..." who do you write for again, hick-hack? Go die in a fire.

[DavidLeeNatra]

the NSA is a fucking hydra and it needs to get her head cut off...

[Coyote]

I wonder how the NSA's gonna explain this one:

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-secretly-access-yahoo-google-982/

NSA secretly accessed Yahoo, Google data centers to collect information
Published time: October 30, 2013 16:36

Despite having front-door access to communications transmitted across the biggest Internet companies on Earth, the National Security Agency has been secretly tapping into the two largest online entities in the world, new leaked documents reveal.

Those documents, supplied by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and obtained by the Washington Post, suggest that the US intelligence agency and its British counterpart have compromised data stored on the servers of Google and Yahoo, the two biggest companies in the world with regards to overall Internet traffic.

“From undisclosed interception points, the NSA and GCHQ are copying entire data flows across fiber-optic cables that carry information between the data centers of the Silicon Valley giants,” the Post’s Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani reported on Wednesday.

The document providing evidence of such was among the trove of files supplied by Mr. Snowden and is dated January 9, 2013, making it among the most recent top-secret files attributed to the 30-year-old whistleblower.

Earlier this year, separate documentation supplied by Mr. Snowden disclosed evidence of PRISM, an NSA-operated program that the intelligence company conducted to target the users of Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, Aol and Apple services. When that program was disclosed by the Guardian newspaper in June, reporters there said it allowed the NSA to “collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats” while having direct access to the companies’ servers, at times with the “assistance of communication providers in the US.”

According to the latest leak, the NSA and GCHQ are conducting similar operations targeting the users of at least two of these companies, although this time under utmost secrecy.

[ELVIS]

They can't, nor do they care to...

They think they're god...

[ELVIS]

"If I knew how to read..." who do you write for again, hick-hack? Go die in a fire.

Now you're a writer ??

[FORD]

the NSA is a fucking hydra and it needs to get her head cut off...

Well... the problem with that, if you recall the story, is when you cut the head off a hydra, two more grow back in its place.

[DrMaddVibe]

I wonder how the NSA's gonna explain this one:

It's for the good of the people. Think of the children.


THAT'S how they're gonna spin it...maybe throw in clean water and global warming...but it's ALWAYS for the children!

[DavidLeeNatra]

Well... the problem with that, if you recall the story, is when you cut the head off a hydra, two more grow back in its place.

not if you cut off the MAIN head

[ashstralia]

I sent her a text yesterday. She said 'yo ash, I'm good, How about you?'

[Seshmeister]

No offence but given the history of the 20th century is it completely unreasonable to keep tabs on the German government?

[Nickdfresh]

It's for the good of the people. Think of the children.


THAT'S how they're gonna spin it...maybe throw in clean water and global warming...but it's ALWAYS for the children!

They're actually spinning it as everyone else does it and allies spy on each other. I don't totally disagree with the exception of the scale and scope of it, and the attitude that "we can do it means we should!" I'm more worried about their datamining of U.S. citizens' phone records and their hacks into Yahoo and Google...