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(108,903 posts) Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:29 AM Jun 2013

PRISM Is Just Part Of A Much Larger, Scarier Government Surveillance Program

http://www.businessinsider.com/prism-is-just-the-start-of-nsa-spying-2013-6

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers.

Around the world, government spies and eavesdroppers were tracking the email and Internet addresses used by suspected terrorists. Often, those trails led to the world's largest software company and, at the time, largest email provider.

The agents wanted email archives, account information, practically everything, and quickly. Engineers compiled the data, sometimes by hand, and delivered it to the government.

Often there was no easy way to tell if the information belonged to foreigners or Americans. So much data was changing hands that one former Microsoft employee recalls that the engineers were anxious about whether the company should cooperate.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/prism-is-just-the-start-of-nsa-spying-2013-6#ixzz2WTKSTzWz

***ah the irony -- Hoovering.

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PRISM Is Just Part Of A Much Larger, Scarier Government Surveillance Program (Original Post) xchrom Jun 2013 OP

Does Microsoft not have a legal department? Earth_First Jun 2013 #1

the biggest delusion expressed on DU is that the security apparatus feels bound KG Jun 2013 #2

+1 xchrom Jun 2013 #3

When the Govt. says there is nothing to worry that is the time you should start worring hariamerica Jun 2013 #4

Thousands Of Companies Swap Sensitive Data With US Agencies In Exchange For Classified Intel [REPORT xchrom Jun 2013 #5

It probably enhances their bottom line. reteachinwi Jun 2013 #6

Earth_First

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1. Does Microsoft not have a legal department?

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:31 AM

Jun 2013

"one former Microsoft employee recalls that the engineers were anxious about whether the company should cooperate."

KG

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2. the biggest delusion expressed on DU is that the security apparatus feels bound

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:45 AM

Jun 2013

by checks, balances, warrants, or any kind of rule.

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

3. +1

Reply to KG (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:50 AM

Jun 2013

hariamerica

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4. When the Govt. says there is nothing to worry that is the time you should start worring

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:51 AM

Jun 2013

The President has come up with a statement that only 300 phones were tapped.. Don't know if he will come up with a tatement that only 10 Google Servers were compromised....

xchrom

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5. Thousands Of Companies Swap Sensitive Data With US Agencies In Exchange For Classified Intel [REPORT

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 08:02 AM

Jun 2013

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-companies-work-with-the-us-government-2013-6

Thousands of companies work closely with U.S. national security agencies by swapping sensitive trade information for benefits including access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process told Michale Riley of Bloomberg.

The sources said the information is used not only to defend the nation but also to help the NSA hack the computers of U.S. adversaries.

The reports sheds light on the remarkably close relationship between private technology and finance companies and the government.

In exchange for their cooperation, leaders of companies are given classified information or warnings about threats that could affect their bottom line (such as serious cyebrattacks and who is behind them).

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-companies-work-with-the-us-government-2013-6#ixzz2WTSuuDuL

reteachinwi

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6. It probably enhances their bottom line.

Reply to xchrom (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 08:36 AM

Jun 2013

Following the money, the security privatization racket and Snowden's moves - all at the same time - allows for a wealth of savory scenarios ... starting with selected players embedded in the NSA-centric Matrix node making a financial killing with inside information.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-02-130613.html

After some digging CNBC's Eamon Javers reported that the source of the early trading was Thomson Reuters. The company has a well-known deal with the University of Michigan, the source of the data, that allows Thomson Reuters to release that data 5 minutes before it's supposed to come out (9:55 am) to clients who pay for that privilege.

But Thomson Reuters also provides a service called “ultra-low latency,” which allows premium customers to get numbers like Consumer Confidence and the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index number 2 seconds before it's released to the general public for $2,000 a month.

Two seconds in high-frequency trading time is an eternity.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/latency-in-trading-2013-6#ixzz2WTbKH4wy

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