the Guardian has revealed yet another massive invasion of privacy they publish
an article earlier this week and thanks to Glenn Greenwald and Edward stone
we're finding out about this program
called X ke score on it's a complicated program
and it's probably the the culmination of your worst nightmares about the NSA is
doing
Glenn Greenwald described it this way he says listen to whatever emails they want
whatever telephone calls browsing histories Microsoft Word documents
and it's all done with no need to go to a court with no need to even get
supervisor approval on a par
analyst a little teaser what I can do and so it is massive program
all over the the world that gathers up your different browsing and then viewing
data and stuff like that that you do online after they have been email
they can decode out what language you were speaking in track down who you are
and then they log all this information now we've got tons have details about
what I can do
how did you guys and you react to this real surprise that goes way beyond what
we can actually thought
this so ridiculous looking up not surprising sadly this is not surprising
I i've assumed all this actually for quite some time that they can just watch
yes and they know or do it and they know what boys
i've seen and they know how often I got ESPN dot com or wherever I go I just a
swim team you support know that they know on the anti-spam and I didn't want
anyone to know
let me know had yeah I use that you're looking
but I think what's vertically disturbing here
is that it's just that we keep thinking that we've heard everything
and that we're just gonna keep finding out there are more things that we think
are sorta paranoid delusions are actually true and thats
the scary part when this this I'm already under the assumption that every
single thing I do is being watched by the internet and maybe that's me being
extremely
include scattered all over I by the government including my activity on the
Internet in fact this is the big news story in the day and I have to tell you
I found it
to be the most mediocre new star the day not because I think it's unimportant
but because its sole unsurprising yet so I'll
and sulfur the majority of Americans I have no interest in political activism
and don't want to stir the pot and don't want to stand up to authority
this might not be that big of a deal because as you mentioned Dave
you know okay so the government's like taking a look at ESPN and you know the
poor guy watching or wherever an office so that was a joke
feel like you know browsing the point sites guide or Fri Mar 09
good accidentally clicked for anything access like a wheel accidentally cut
grass like
but but the thing is a lot I was do things on the internet that's
embarrassing whether it's sending an embarrassing email to an ex-lover
or like whatever it is that you're doing or or watching for whatever I don't
if the government does not like you starring the pot they can
easily access that information and as we get to the public now at least there is
the fear that I could happen which is why
this is an issue yes so what do we give you some details on exactly what excuse
score does
this is coming from the Guardian report they say the excuse core system is
continuously collecting so much
internet data that can be stored only for short periods of time content
remains on a system for only three to five days while meta-data score is
stored for up to 30 days
one document explains at some sites the meta-data we were see per day twenty
plus terabytes
can only be stored for as little as 24 hours these are some %uh the structural
constraints just because of how much data they are pulling in every day
but they have a lil system to get around those limitations
to solve the problem we just describe the NSA has created a multi-tiered
system that allows analysts to store interesting content
and other databases such as one in pin whale which in store material for up to
five years
now on just give an idea of the global scope for this weekend will map that
shows you some other locations on the servers
so there you see that the hot spots where the servers are theirs over 700
servers
it's mainly run at 04 bases in New Zealand and Australia
now granted they say that the program by the way these slides are again these
these are some other leaks are coming from Edward snowden he had access to
this information
they say it's for getting information of foreign nationals
but there's nothing to stop them from using this domestically and they say
that
there's no core order necessary to access the system even low-level
analysts including Edward snowden
can just waltz in use the program and find all sorts of information
yet for stuff you know that those powerpoints that they have really are
just horrendous can make it
I better with the Cowboys and whenever to the thing about the twenty terabytes
does not seem like a really low number actually I'm pretty sure I think those
are nice
but I'm external hard drive that has like five terabytes I got a hundred
bucks at Best Buy Sell
I could be bear in mind hundreds of thousands of sites across the country
are across the world though
and that's just like one big site like Bleacher Report is twenty terabytes or
something like that
but then your face but God knows how large those that the amount of data they
gather as
and so they can they can go back in a month later to some love them some love
it eventually
hopefully is got rid of and now the the NSA has responded to the revelations
by the Guardian they say excuse gore's uses the party then if there's a lawful
foreign signals intelligence collection system
allegations a wide spread unchecked and I analyst access to an essay collection
date are simply not true
access to excuse poor as well as all indices analytic tools is limited only
to those personnel
who require access for their assigned tasks in addition there are multiple
technical manual and supervisory checks and balances within the system
to prevent deliberate misuse from occurring rosso they say
yeah the biggest punch bowl I find a way better than I feel much better
event I so the maddening for this entire story is
Edwards noting continues to leak more more information
and little is being done in terms of protecting our privacy rights in fact
moline congress that
some Democrats and some Republicans are putting a lot of pressure on them
the NSA did reveal the director national talent such as they were revealed some
information willingly because the pressure that's been put on them
right so something is being done right knee not enough
I don't think considering the widespread a surveillance that we're experiencing
right now I would like to see much more done I'm not buying like these little
actions and
I'm not buying pressure there needs to be more than pressure I'll
but the thing that drives me crazy about this
is the fear-mongering that takes place because you have politicians like chris
Christie making the argument that this type of spying is completely necessary
to prevent any type of terrorist attacks and it's necessary for national security
well the same time I mean you have the NSA you have government officials
releasing numbers like all this program have helped capture
300 tears yeah right 301 very like
even number I like how they exactly 300 W
exactly its so I don't buy any of that but at the same time okay with this
widespread surveillance is so effective
how did we not know the boss bottom bombing was gonna happen right and also
you know remember when Obama was running for president he was completely against
all this stuff right
then the leaker comes out and suddenly Obama says I welcome the debate so now
you have to get something out he welcomes the debate about the secret
that you help keep
and now we're supposed to believe these quotes that you just read oh don't worry
no one's
abusing the system will do they know that's noted was about to abuse their
system so
it's just all a bit is complete BS there is simply no other way to see it