Or as if they are addressing the media talking points from yesterday... It was all over the news. Every channel was saying "direct access" and then throwing names like "Google," "Apple," and "Iphone" around.
+1 "direct access" is just a deceiving jargon that is being used by a bunch of corporate lawyers working in sync.
Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM
by earth2marsh on Friday June 07, 2013 @04:34PM
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Letting out my inner conspiracy theorist for a moment, a prism can be used to split light. For example, think of a pentaprism mirror in many DSLR cameras.
Did the NSA choose "PRISM" because they are splitting the signal upstream of providers, thus giving private companies plausible deniability?
Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM
by gridscomputing on Friday June 07, 2013 @04:04PM
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It's not "direct" access, it's access through a one-way live xml feed
It's for the government, gotta be CSV in EBCDIC.
Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM
by venomsnake on Friday June 07, 2013 @04:20PM
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Please ... it will be binary format. Even the government isn't so wasteful to transmit data as xml. And if it did you could easily find where the servers were located by the 5 nuclear power plants needed to power such parsing.
I hate to tell you this, but the government has never been concerned enough with overhead to not use something like XML. Frankly its probably tab deliminated ASCII.
We'd be lucky to see a binary protocol.
Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM
by gridscomputing on Friday June 07, 2013 @04:29PM
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HUR DUR XML IS BAD HUR DUR
Apple: "We do not provide any government agency with direct access"
Facebook: "We do not provide any government organization with direct access"
Yahoo: "We do not provide the government with direct access"
Remarkably consistent - as if it was coordinated, or scripted by an attorney...