Could Glenn Greenwald go to jail? The law is alarmingly murky

Re:Could Glenn Greenwald go to jail? The law is alarmingly m... by mpyne on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @03:12PM (#5948283)

The $20 million relates to PRISM, which is probably "just" the interface/analysis system for the FISA/NSL data that comes directly from the cloud providers.

The PRISM slide that mentiones splitting probably references the other program(s) that collect raw data.

Occam's Razor, people.

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Re:Could Glenn Greenwald go to jail? The law is alarmingly m... by cinquemb on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @03:32PM (#5948428)

Makes sense because tapping into underwater cables seems much more expensive.

"The NSA spent more than 15 years working to develop the technology to tap these cable strands. The Navy has almost finished outfitting the nuclear-powered submarine USS Jimmy Carter with state-of-the-art technology for undersea fiber-optic taps, according to people knowledgeable about it."[0, Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2003]

[0]: http://cryptome.org/nsa-seatap.htm

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