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[ PRIVACY Forum ] "XKEYSCORE" - The *least* secret NSA program in
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"XKEYSCORE" - The *least* secret NSA program in recent memory
You may have heard quite a bit of breathless reporting today about a
supposedly new "expose" from Edward Snowden's document cache --
regarding the NSA "XKEYSCORE" program.
You can look up the various stories easily enough, but there are a few
points of note:
1) All evidence is that this is a database search program for existing
collected data, not a data collection program.
2) The NSA training slides being promulgated are years old, and appear to
date to before the widespread deployment of opportunistic connection
encryption by major Web services.
[Now it starts to get amusing ...]
3) XKEYSCORE experience apparently turns up frequently in many people's
LinkedIn profiles.
4) XKEYSCORE job listings are opening promoted, e.g.:
http://j.mp/17jXcOO (Google+)
Hmm. XKEYSCORE, winner of the worst kept intelligence "secret"
of the year ...
--Lauren--
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