My post about how a central claim of the PRISM story turns out not to be true has drawn a
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Parsing PRISM: Gen. Keith Alexander did not claim “dozens of attacks” were prevented.
Over and over we’ve read that Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, claimed that its massive surveillance program
Continue readingPRISM: The Problem with Collect-Then-Select.
[Note: This post now uses the phrase “collect-then-select”, instead of “collect-then-analyze”, which wasn’t quite as accurate. Other than that, and
Continue readingEpic botch of the PRISM story.
[Update 2013-06-13: See Rick Perlstein’s piece about this on The Nation’s blog. Glenn Greenwald later responded here.] Mark Jaquith’s post
Continue readingPrivacy Promises and Client-Side Betrayal.
At the end of the post is a list of updates about new client-side betrayals I’ve noticed since this was
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