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by letmein 3310 days ago
It gets even worse. Remember last month when NSA announced they were ending 702 "About Data" and everyone cheered like lobotomized vegetables, "we won against NSA! yay! our Right are restored."

Wrong.

Right there FISA tells NSA they are now allowed to spy on Americans in the US at will using 702 because they ended the "About Data."

There are too many redactions to understand what is "About Data", how far did they go with it in terms of building an automated encyclopedia of all Americans and all people, that knows everything about everyone by inference on other people communicating "about" you.

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I remember reading a prescient comment on Slashdot back in the week when the Patriot Act first passed in October 2001. They said "child porn is the root password of the Constitution."

Well here we are. The FBI invoked child porn to justify their abusing their access to NSA's raw 702 UPSTREAM SIGINT to trawl for dirt on Hillary's political opponents, any Democrat leakers, all of Trump's inner circle and anyone who opposes Soros and Barry Soetoro importing the Caliphate into White Christian Nations.

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Why does it take 3 years for NSA to still not close all their holes in the UPSTREAM boat? Why does FISA keep rolling over and letting NSA data-rape them? "It's ok NSA, thanks for telling us, we're not mad at you, as long as you promise that you're trying, you can keep on abusing us indefinitely. "

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This one ought to enrage all HN readers, who are technically competent enough to understand the problem. Here NSA admits they only use a single criteria to determine if some packets intercepted into UPSTREAM belong to an American or a Foreigner: IP Address.

Now you may ask, how can NSA be so rock solid certain that an IP address is evidence enough to either process your data into their ingest system or mark you on their Master Purge List for deletion in 10 years and to let other spy agencies know they should not use your data for anything?

cough cough You still don't know what is TREASUREMAP and BONESAW. Those programs are the key to understanding why NSA is so confident in attribution of Americans. Which is hilarious, when you realize they couldn't attribute a high profile APT hack if their lives depended on it.

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Remember after the Snowden leaks began, when General Alexander and The Clap desparately declassified their internal IG compliance reports that showed some questionable math stating they only "touch" 1% of Internet traffic? I bet you went back to sleep after believing Snowden was exaggerating, it's not that bad, and NSA certainly doesn't record a full copy of the entire Internet in Bluffdale, now that's just crazy talk.

Right here NSA admits they lied and they "touch" 3% of all Internet traffic via UPSTREAM. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Why should you believe NSA this time, given that they provably lied about this not 3 years ago? Why should you believe NSA even knows how much total Internet traffic that they "touch"? You don't even know what the NSA's definition of "touch" is, yet you're so willing to believe them and ignore their disasters, time after time after time.

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Right here NSA admits to FISA that their querying UPSTREAM breaks their own rules 85% of the time. If you care at all about the Internet, privacy and free speech, this astonishing fact should launch your fat lazy keester out of your office masseuses chair in your kushy SF office and into the streets to demand someone do something.

85% is absolutely inexcusable.

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Right here NSA snitches to FISA and admits FBI gives their raw UPSTREAM SIGINT to Contractors who are not "assisting" the Govt. Let that sink in. We know UPSTREAM access at FBI is restricted to a very small group of less than 100 FBI personnel.

Want to bet this was Comey himself? Want to bet he was giving the private data of Trump and all of Trump's associates to John Brennan's old CGI contractors? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAuqx0TU0AATOEm.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAurhH8UwAE1LXh.jpg

As if the horror of seeing the Matrix for yourself isn't enough, it gets worse yet. Here NSA throws FBI under the bus to FISA by snitching that FBI abuses raw UPSTREAM SIGINT to spy on American's communications with their Attorneys.

If you've read the DNI's declassified documents post-Snowden, you'll remember this issue coming up. According to NSA and FBI logic, until you are charged with a crime by a Court, then it is OK for them to spy on all of your communications with your Attorneys and any legal counsel. Being charged still doesn't stop them from continuing to spy on you and your Attorneys, it just changes to another Secret Law you don't know about to let them do it.

Why would NSA burn FBI before FISA like this? NSA must know Comey and FBI abused UPSTREAM so badly, that it threatens to endanger NSA itself. NSA doesn't give a shit about Americans, but they do care about their own self-preservation. Isn't it a bizarre Wonderland we've entered when the only guarantee we have to stop NSA abuse is others abusing NSA so badly that NSA has to step in to stop them to save their own necks?

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In conclusion, I am deeply disappointed by the shills on this board. You know who you are and you are hugely irresponsible for spreading FAKE NEWS and talking down stunning NSA leaks like nothing is going on, "these are not the droids you're looking for", why not OBEY and SLEEP my fellow hacker news technically proficient nerds who might be the only demographic who can actually do something to stop NSA?

Like David BrockBots would shill on 4chan in thousands of threads to flood the narrative and make Normies ignore reading the truth for themselves: "just went through it and it appears to be nothing substantial sadly"

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