US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program

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Post by donohoe » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 9:58 PM UTC

US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program
washingtonpost.com

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#2

Post by natrius » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:02 PM UTC

Note that this is a separate story from today's furor about the NSA obtaining American phone call metadata.

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#3

Post by donohoe » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:04 PM UTC

  The National Security Agency and the FBI
  are tapping directly into the central servers

and then they're

  extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, 
  documents and connection logs

from...

  Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk,
  AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.

and it gets better

  Dropbox, the cloud storage and synchronization
  service, is described as “coming soon.”

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#4

Post by _k » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

So if I'm using a US based hosting provider for my customers websites, their data will be extracted ?

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#5

Post by stfu » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:14 PM UTC

Would be time for a call on VCs and Incubators that a sustainable future for the web would mean fostering startups that rise the convenience of privacy tools.

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Post by ISL » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:14 PM UTC

natrius wrote: post #2

Note that this is a separate story from today's furor about the NSA obtaining American phone call metadata.

Publication today may have been stimulated by yesterday's news.

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#7

Post by ISL » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:15 PM UTC

Note link at the bottom to the powerpoint slides in question:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

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#8

Post by shmerl » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:15 PM UTC

In addition they simply suck all traffic from major providers. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

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#9

Post by ry0ohki » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:15 PM UTC

What sort of threats does the NSA give to these companies so they participated without any leaks? Just curious what the penalty would be if the NSA approached me about sucking down my user data and I refused.

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Post by anon808 » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:16 PM UTC

Sounds like some one (or many) are blowing whistles. A lot of documents leaking.