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Prism NSA

Dallo scandalo scoppiato recentemente in US, oggetto il programma di controllo delle comunicazioni (PRISM) messo in piedi dalla National Security Agency, emergono due considerazioni importanti:

  1. sarebbe bello se tutto il software usato per l’analisi di questi big data venisse rilasciato in open source;
  2. alla NSA hanno bisogno di qualcuno che sappia usare (decentemente) powerpoint (non vi è traccia di tutta quella fantatecnologia trasmessa dai canali del titolo).

La vicenda è questa:

Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.

Le slide sono qui.

Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously undisclosed program, obtained by The Washington Post, show the breadth of U.S. electronic surveillance capabilities in the wake of a widely publicized controversy over warrantless wiretapping of U.S. domestic telephone communications in 2005. These slides, annotated by The Washington Post, represent a selection from the overall document, and certain portions are redacted