| You obviously didn't read the pdf. Your pro-NSA shilling is so flatly contradicted by what's in that document, that your opinions are total garbage. You should be so embarrassed at flaunting your ignorance in public that I recommend you delete your account. Let's examine the pdf page by page. NSA admits it broke its own rules and spied on Americans. This is no longer theoretical or a "smear" by "those who would prefer to weaken the US" (LOL I can't believe you said that). https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAukw6RU0AAuf-y.jpg NSA admits that it has no idea how many ways its own analysts can access UPSTREAM in order to perform the abuse mention in my previous screencap. Think about that. UPSTREAM is over 10 years old. They had all the time is the world to lock it down, to shore up their defenses, to comply with some basic fucking rules that they set for themselves. They totally failed. What if $MEGA_BILLION Corporation out there had no idea how its employees were logging into the ERP as root and poking around whatever they felt like for a decade? What if it was a HIPAA business? What if it was one of the top 5 accounting firms? UPSTREAM is one of the most powerful cyberweapons ever built, and here NSA themselves tell the FISA judge that they lost control of it. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAumAKSUMAA8BIN.jpg They first told FISA about these problems back in 2015. They told the judge in 2015 that they found abuses going back to 2011. Well here we are 3 years later and NSA is still telling FISA "we're working on it." What if the National Nuclear Security Agency lost a nuke 6 years ago? You'd think the world would stop immediately, top dogs would be severely punished and the most severe remedies would be applied to fix the problem. How is UPSTREAM any different? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAumAKSUMAA8BIN.jpg Right there NSA admits they have no way to audit UPSTREAM access. Remember when the Snowden leaks began? Remember The Clap and all the 17 Nazgul swearing up and down to everyone that it's not as bad as it seems, they have elaborate comprehensive compliance rules, random auditing, and log trails of everything.
"Trust Us, we're the Good Guys, Marty!" Bullshit. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAulnpzUMAIgoAY.jpg Right there NSA admits they spy on all Americans in order to put us all on a "Master Purge List", which they share with all the other 16 SpyTels and everyone who gets access to raw, unminimized UPSTREAM SIGINT. NSA says they have to spy on Americans in order to know which IP addresses, which traffic, which connections, which metadata, which Content belongs to Americans, in order for them to filter it out of UPSTREAM. This is the most perverted twisting of Surveillance State logic I can imagine. Like the saying in Vietnam "we had to destroy the village to save it."
NSA had to spy on Americans in order to not spy on Americans. So what's your smarmy uninformed reaction to that one? Still best buddies with Deep State? How much do you trust FBI or the Dept of Agriculture with your UPSTREAM data to abide by the honor system and obey NSA's Master Purge List and not read your home Internet traffic, the websites you visit, your emails, texts, all of it? Remember when Snowden first leaked and all the "Infosec" poseurs and "Thot Leaders" (none of whom can code) gave TED talks and conference keynotes advising everyone to "HTTPS All The Things! 2FA Brah! E2E! Trust The Math!" then patted each other on the backs on stage when receiving their Humanitarian Awards for Fierce Intrepid Journalism, Speaking Truth to Power and all that circle jerking off to look like Heroes who stood up to the NSA and empowered the People and now everything's fine, let's go shopping Barbie, we defeated the Big Bad NSA. Bullshit. Right here NSA admits to FISA that FBI keeps all encrypted traffic forever. You used to use HTTP for most traffic, but now you use HTTPS and Signal and Tor and Keybase and you're a Good Cypherpunk
cosplaying at "changing the world." If you ever believed that load of bull, you are the problem. Your idiocracy just led millions of non-coder sheep into allowing FBI to save everyone's encrypted traffic forever. At least when they spied on unencrypted traffic they would delete it after seeing that your lolcats are not steganographic messages to your ISIS sleeper cell about your next bomb plot. Now that everyone uses encryption, everyone is a suspect, forever. FBI says they only apply their retention deletion rules after the moment it is decrypted. Which could be 5 years from now, or 20. Great job Cypherpunk Beliebers, instead of directly challenging NSA on policy, you fucked us all with your ridiculous Larpfest about beating the Govt by using encryption. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAunKM5U0AA-zBV.jpg The worst part about this declassified pdf is that NSA even admits to FISA that all of these rules and oversight and compliance are just a stage show and they don't have to tell FISA anything about what they do! Remember how John Yoo wrote the secret memoes that approved Bush to unleash NSA from rules and "Collect It All", memoes which we little people didn't even get to know existed just until 2015? The President's Inherent Constitutional Authority means his privacy to use his powers trumps every right you thought you had in the Bill of Rights. Free Speech? Nope, not for you. The President gets that. Unreasonable search and seizure? Nope, the President trumps you. It's not a "physical search", it's an "electronic search", which you don't know yet, but this is the most important Secret Law that you still don't know about. An "electronic search" is not a wiretap, so no rules apply to it going back to Nixon's 1969 Omnibus Crime Act which established the first rules for wiretaps. Quartering soldiers in your home? Wrong again bucko. The President can quarter the entire NSA virus arsenal on your home router and infect every computer you own and you can't do jack shit. And if you discover you have been hacked and if you talked about it, then you go to jail for leaking National Security secrets. General Warrants? The President can rendition, disappear and assassinate anyone he wants and you have no right to know, and even if you did know, you can't prove it effects you personally, so you have zero standing in any Court in the nation. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAuneIrUAAAQE2-.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAumaaYUAAMAars.jpg But wait it gets worse, if such a thing is possible.
You think you know what UPSTREAM is? You read The Intercept, you respect Greenwald, and maybe you glanced at a few Snowden docs to see what the fuss was for yourself. Oh, NSA is wiretapping 100's of undersea cables, 10's of thousands of Satellite uplink stations, and 800,000 cell phone towers all over the planet, exfiltrating all of your data, so the entire Internet backbone is siphoned back to Bluffdale. You're probably a smart guy and you smirk and say to yourself "well of course, I always KNEW they did that, what's the big deal?" Well right there NSA says there is another source feeding into 702 that is NOT UPSTREAM. Do you get butterflies in your stomach when you realize for the past 10 years NSA has lied to FISA about what 702 and UPSTREAM even is? Why are they only now telling FISA there is more access to more data outside of UPSTREAM? "If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear"... isn't that what all the Good Germans and idiots say when they go along with whatever NSA is doing? Well if NSA had nothing to fear from FISA, why did they hide it? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAuoTMBVYAA-5ZQ.jpg |
