PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack

Re:PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single... by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:18AM (#24777486)

The government prevents thousands of terrorist attacks every year by being tolerable enough that the number of people filling rental trucks full of explosives is zero.

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Re:PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single... by jariel on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:08PM (#24779625)

? There are actually a myriad of interlocking protocols that help to thwart such activities, to ignore them is not reasonable.

Most poignantly there is literally an Ammonium Nitrate security program. [1]

As for the 'number of truck bombings being zero' ... it did happen and the average is 'more than zero' and when we consider the implications (an entire building and 100's of dead etc.) it's a concern.

Obviously, it's hard to determine the effectiveness of the various programs because they all play a part, but that there haven't been any such bombings since then is at likely a positive sign.

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/ammonium-nitrate-security-program

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Re:PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single... by Pick-A-Hill2019 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:52AM (#24778030)

Timothy McVeigh begs to differ (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/oklahoma-cit...)

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Re:PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single... by bigbubba on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @12:03PM (#24778161)

That was 25 years ago. The average number of such trucks per year is zero.

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