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Re:Welcome to Echelon 2.0 by PavlovsCat on Thursday June 06, 2013 @03:44AM (#5831056)
the NSA cannot intercept signals within the United States

Oh, really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s976iyaO39A

In the first few minutes of that Bill Binney says this:

"I was focused at foreign threats. The problems I solved, and the way I solved them, were directed at foreign threats, and foreign potential threats. Unfortunately, after 9/11 they took my solutions and directed them at this country, and everybody in it."

Re:Welcome to Echelon 2.0 by bascule on Thursday June 06, 2013 @10:29AM (#5832611)
Thanks for posting this! That part of the article bothered me as well. See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Wind_(code_name)