NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree

Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by kilgnad on Sunday February 05, 2023 @11:23AM (#34666110)

I don't think most people (programmers included) followed it in detail as closely as you. Care to elaborate on Snowden's misunderstanding or prism?

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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by samdcbu on Sunday February 05, 2023 @11:37AM (#34666248)

During the first days of the Washington Post’s reporting on the Snowden documents, the outlet misreported the mechanism for how PRISM obtained it’s data. It was initially reported, seemingly based on Snowden’s misunderstanding of PRISM, that the NSA has a direct connection into the servers of Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. That wasn’t actually true, as the data for PRISM was obtained through Section 702 requests the FBI sent to tech companies which was a practice established in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by hulitu on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:39PM (#34666806)

> That wasn’t actually true, as the data for PRISM was obtained through Section 702 requests the FBI sent to tech companies which was a practice established in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

Nice. Not thrilling, but nice. I'm really sure that how they are working because i read it somewhere. /s

Then again ? Why do they need to tape telecom operators ?

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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by lern_too_spel on Sunday February 05, 2023 @11:27AM (#34666141)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34510696

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