I'd like to know where they are keeping these "over 300 terrorists" that have been captured due to this program.

How is one labeled a terrorist by this program I wonder?

This. This is what worries me more than anything. Where have these 300 people gone? There should be records, trials, something. 300 suspected terrorists going on trial over a period of 5 years should have resulted in huge wave of almost 24/7 publicity.

That the NSA is in the business of total surveillance is bad enough. But there is the faint hint that the NSA is in the business of making people disappear.

Black sites are still there. Black sites with dubious givernments do the disappearances for the CIA, wihout them getting their hands dirty unless they have to.

There's news about terrorist plots being foiled all the time. Why are you assuming there's no overlap? It's quite common in terrorist trials for some of the evidence to be sealed from the public (this isn't unconstitutional, as long as the defense gets to look at it).

>Someone whose language is out of place for the region they are in

Check (German browsing in English)

>Someone who is using encryption

Check (my PGP Key is on my website)

>Someone searching the web for suspicious stuff

Check (I'm a curious person, what did you expect?)

I guess I'm considered a terrorist nowadays.

Most of us here fit that description, which brings us back to the information overload argument: they are lowering their chances of success by increasing the ratio of false positives. Even disregarding moral and legal aspects, what they are doing is wrong because it's inefficient.

You're assuming that they see having false positives as an issue. You don't worry over such things when there's no problem with tossing suspects into a hole with no due process.

Well, we know what happens when they're "caught" - they're put in Guantanamo forever.

Pretty fucking scary if you ask me.

By captured, I'm sure they mean captured via droning.

And these days it seems you can be labeled a terrorist just for protesting..

I'd like to know how they check for/track false positives.

>> Show me all the exploitable machines in country X.

> That's cool. I'm guessing this is what Snowden meant by weak endpoint security.

That, plus things like Microsoft and Apple operating systems. Don't forget: it's proven they work with the NSA, so backdoors certainly are guaranteed (plus, with Microsoft, we also know they hand 0-day exploits over to the NSA before they're fixed, plus you benefit from all the viruses, trojans, etc.). Again, if you missed it, start migrating now: https://prism-break.org/

There was a document released by the Guardian a few weeks to a month back showing how they also monitor open source issue trackers to find exploitable flaws.

Oh I'm sure they're fighting on all fronts (which we will have to do as well...). But I do believe there are higher-hanging and lower-hanging fruits.