The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies

Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by specialist on Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:45PM (#5877674)

What turns my crank is the nitpicking to obfuscate the policy issue.

If the people freaking about "direct access" think it's wrong, I'd very much like them to correct the record.

tptacek? Care to explain precisely how the NSA slurps up all the data?

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Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by joeguilmette on Thursday June 13, 2013 @10:31PM (#5877955)

And further, why the issue is how they have access to my private correspondence without a warrant rather than the fact they have access to my private correspondence without a warrant?

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Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by tptacek on Thursday June 13, 2013 @10:31PM (#5877956)

That's not how it works. I don't need to know how precisely the NSA "slurps up all the data" to challenge a specific claim the Guardian made about the degree of discretion NSA has in obtaining data from Google or Facebook.

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Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by joeguilmette on Friday June 14, 2013 @09:04AM (#5879639)

You're right. Surely the leaked documents from the NSA must be falsified and Google et al is telling the truth. And there is certainly no room in the middle. And we definitely have nothing worry about.

I'd like to think you are more intelligent than this, but the only real other option is that you are trolling, and neither are attractive or plausible.

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Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by specialist on Friday June 14, 2013 @04:34AM (#5878897)

So then you're not a Popperian. Understood.

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