Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations.
June 10, 2013 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2013 at 12:44 pm by Tiberius.)
*sigh*
Minimalist, you have no idea what you are talking about for once. Gaining access to phone records is the very least of the NSA's activities. The major leak was of the Prism program, which suggests that the NSA have access to the internal servers of several large companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook. If they have direct access to those machines, they have access to a lot more than just phone records.
Please go and read up on the actual leaks before making any more uneducated comments.
If anyone wants to read a good summary of the current situation, and a compelling argument for why this much secrecy is wrong, you should take a look at one of Bruce Schneier's recent articles. Schneier is a veteran cryptographer and information security guru who has helped design multiple encryption algorithms and is probably the go to guy on anything related to that field.
Minimalist, you have no idea what you are talking about for once. Gaining access to phone records is the very least of the NSA's activities. The major leak was of the Prism program, which suggests that the NSA have access to the internal servers of several large companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook. If they have direct access to those machines, they have access to a lot more than just phone records.
Please go and read up on the actual leaks before making any more uneducated comments.
If anyone wants to read a good summary of the current situation, and a compelling argument for why this much secrecy is wrong, you should take a look at one of Bruce Schneier's recent articles. Schneier is a veteran cryptographer and information security guru who has helped design multiple encryption algorithms and is probably the go to guy on anything related to that field.
