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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by 1024core on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:15PM (#10604998)
So, basically: the NSA lets (say) GCHQ collect data on Americans, and taps into it; conversely, NSA collects data on Brits and lets GCHQ tap into it. Voila! Both have satisfied their "legal" obligations, and yet have all the data they need.
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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by vonmoltke on Friday November 20, 2015 @09:11PM (#10605190)
It doesn't work that way. "Stealing" data on Americans from GCHQ is just as illegal as collecting it themselves. They aren't allowed to have the information without legal authorization.
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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by tlrobinson on Saturday November 21, 2015 @02:15AM (#10606037)
Couldn't the NSA just ask the GCHQ to run specific queries (or entire programs/algorithms) against their data and share any intelligence gained?
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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by jzd on Friday November 20, 2015 @10:27PM (#10605413)
Lol, like they give a fuck
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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by pheroden on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:20PM (#10605013)
I thought we were already under the assumption that this was what FVEY's was doing.
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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by arca_vorago on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:30PM (#10605051)
Thise of us paying attention have known this since the late 90's, but were mostly called conspiracy theorists when we tried to talk about it in public.
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Re:File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance ... by robotkilla on Saturday November 21, 2015 @01:41AM (#10605944)
I'm in that boat unfortunately but it goes back to the 80's for me - heard right wing conspiracy stuff from old people who were getting it from the radio and everyone called them crazy... then the 90's, to 2000's aaaand now its real.

That whole paragraph creeps me out i try to avoid this whole discussion now because I don't like observing anymore - I'd like to completely check out of it. The mass murder stuff is horrifying and I hate that its a part of my reality, and worse yet my kid has to see that shit on the news, and other kids have to live it. People need to let ideologies go and work towards space travel peace. If all the other bad stuff has become a reality, I just hope the star trek future we were promised can come true ;)

edit: by part of my reality i mean via the news as well - it hasn't directly affected me thankfully.

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