PRISM: Here's how the NSA wiretapped the Internet

[Ramon F Herrera]

Summary: UPDATED 4: The National Security Agency's "PRISM" program is
able to collect, in realtime, intelligence not limited to social
networks and email accounts. But the seven tech companies accused of
opening 'back doors' to the spy agency could well be proven innocent.

http://www.zdnet.com/prism-heres-how-the-nsa-wiretapped-the-internet-7000016565/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539
http://goo.gl/ceNGb

-RFH

[Ramon F Herrera]

How did mainstream media get the NSA PRISM story so hopelessly wrong?

Summary: Last week's bombshell stories by The Guardian and The
Washington Post accused some of the biggest names in tech of willingly
working with the NSA to give up your data. It now appears that those
stories misread the technical details and got the story wrong.

By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report | June 14, 2013 -- 12:09 GMT (05:09
PDT)

"Last week The Guardian and The Washington Post got their hands on a
big story about the National Security Agency and its alleged
connection to a handful of giant tech companies.

The bombshell stories in both publications carried the by-lines of
experienced reporters. The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, a well-known
political commentator who also holds a law degree, has been covering
national security issues for nearly a decade, and the Post’s Barton
Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize winner who has a [...]"

http://www.zdnet.com/how-did-mainstream-media-get-the-nsa-prism-story-so-hopelessly-wrong-7000016822/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539

http://goo.gl/MaAyA

-Ramon