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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
In this presentation slide on Google Cloud Exploitation, a sketch shows where the Public Internet meets the internal Google Cloud where user data resides.
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.
By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.
According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSAs acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agencys Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records ranging from metadata, which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html
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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say (Original Post)
jakeXT
Oct 2013
OP
Why bother with a middleman when Google and Yahoo can do it so much better?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2013
#5
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)1. love that this is on a post-it note
damn, NSA needs to hire some graphic designers.
SlipperySlope
(2,751 posts)4. K&R for importance
People need to pay attention to this shit. This is a big deal.
Imagine how livid we would be if they had come out under Bush.
BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)2. SSL Added and removed here :)
My goodness.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)3. The potential for abuse of
new technology is always there and has always happened until laws are passed to reign in the abuses.
In the past it was generally confined to individual countries, now it's global and the need for International laws has been made clear.
And now the Global Community is finally addressing the issue.
China, Russia, European countries, not just the US, all of them will have to either agree that without regulations, everyone is subject to what has been revealed, or be viewed as a rogue nation.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)5. Why bother with a middleman when Google and Yahoo can do it so much better?
closeupready
(29,503 posts)6. Isn't this against the law?
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Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)7. Kick.