The NSA Is Turning the Internet Into a Total Surveillance System

[xchrom]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/11-0



Another burst of sunlight permeated the National Security Agency's black box of domestic surveillance last week.

According to the New York Times, the NSA is searching the content of virtually every email that comes into or goes out of the United States without a warrant. To accomplish this astonishing invasion of Americans' privacy, the NSA reportedly is making a copy of nearly every international email. It then searches that cloned data, keeping all of the emails containing certain keywords and deleting the rest – all in a matter of seconds.


If you emailed a friend, family member or colleague overseas today (or if, from abroad, you emailed someone in the US), chances are that the NSA made a copy of that email and searched it for suspicious information.

The NSA appears to believe this general monitoring of our electronic communications is justified because the entire process takes, in one official's words, "a small number of seconds". Translation: the NSA thinks it can intercept and then read Americans' emails so long as the intrusion is swift, efficient and silent.

[corkhead]

1. Maybe we'll at least get better connectivity

http://www.netindex.com/

[xchrom]

2. 'tis an ill wind that blows no good. nt

[RC]

5. I know I am getting better connectivity.

Google fiber just put a box on the back of the house and ran a fiber drop to it. I was promised Google fiber this summer. They had better hurry up with the rest of the install. Summer is mostly over.

[nashville_brook]

3. k and r

[WinkyDink]

4. "a small number of seconds". Their justifications are beyond ludicrous and are, in fact, insane.

[Logical]

6. It amazes me how many DU members seem 100% OK with this. n-t

[woo me with science]

7. K&R