The NSA - which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens - has, according to the Wall Street Journal [4], built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say. The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic. The NSA's filtering, carried out with telecom companies, is designed to look for communications that either originate or end abroad, or are entirely foreign but happen to be passing through the U.S. But the WSJ reports that officials say the system's broad reach makes it more likely that purely domestic communications will be incidentally intercepted and collected in the hunt for foreign ones. Details of these surveillance programs were gathered from interviews with current and former intelligence and government officials and people from companies that help build or operate the systems, or provide data. Most have direct knowledge of the work. Here is how the system operates...
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3 comments:
This is nice-to-know info. Kinda puts the cherry on the sundae of domestic spying.
Sort of like using a shotgun to kill a fly. You might get `em, you might not.
But you sure will make a lot of holes in the wall!
It worked with Russia when they shot down the U2.They simply led it by several miles with a barrage of missiles so intense that at least one had to hit it.
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