Re:NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
by lazyjones on Sunday June 16, 2013 @06:38AM
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> To have the email of arbitrary Americans without a warrant, the NSA would need direct access to the servers that run Google Mail.
Not really. They would only need to get every incoming and outgoing e-mail forwarded/copied to one of their servers. That's not strictly "direct access to Google's servers". At least for incoming e-mails, it would also simply suffice to listen in on some backbone node while having access to Google's private keys to circumvent the TLS encryption (let's ask Larry about those instead).
Not really. They would only need to get every incoming and outgoing e-mail forwarded/copied to one of their servers. That's not strictly "direct access to Google's servers". At least for incoming e-mails, it would also simply suffice to listen in on some backbone node while having access to Google's private keys to circumvent the TLS encryption (let's ask Larry about those instead).