Tech companies urge U.S. to ease secrecy rules on national security probes (PRISM: A Love Story)

Washington Post ^ | 6-12-2013 | Craig Timberg and Cecilia Kang

[Resolute Conservative]

I want her head on a pike.

[Resolute Conservative]

Ooops, now I’ve done it. I will be visited.

[VerySadAmerican]

Did you see the woman who was shot in Santa Monica on CNN? She said she was shocked to see what kind of weapon the shooter had. She said she thought only police could own that kind of rifle, not civilians. She was talking about an AR-15.

Then did you see the sheriff getting two weapons out of his car and run toward the crime scene? He had some firepower. And they want to make sure they’ve got more than the people.

I’m beginning to think these shooters are brainwashed by the government. It’s sad when we mistrust the government so much. Guess I need to change my name to EXTREMELY Sad American.

[VerySadAmerican]

Zuckerberg is only the “face” of Facebook. Suppose the government came out with a “facebook” type social media site and said everyone can sign up for free, post pictures of your ugly kids, tell all your “friends” what TV show you’re about to watch.....but we will need some private information and you have to agree to our “terms”. Do you think anyone but really dumb liberals would sign up?

How many times has Zuckerberg and all the tech company honchos had dinner at the white house? How many of them worked on obama’s campaign?

I’ll glad wrap tin foil around my head because I truly believe what I’m saying.

[VerySadAmerican]

Yep, it’s time to wean myself off the internet.

[manc]

believe it or not I have seen a freeper who has no problem with spying on us, course that freeper might live in the woods and only hears talking points but it does show how pathetic some have become and how they can just sit there and have no problem with a secret program with a secret court full of secret judges, who only hears one side of the issue

[uncommonsense]

"Establish a private sector consortium to work with natsec on behalf of the citizens."
They already did...it's called Booz Allen Hamilton.

“Digital Blackwater”: Meet the Contractors Who Analyze Your Personal Data

With about 70 percent of our national intelligence budgets being spent on the private sector - a discovery I made in 2007 and first reported in Salon – contractors have become essential to the spying and surveillance operations of the NSA.

From Narus, the Israeli-born Boeing subsidiary that makes NSA’s high-speed interception software, to CSC, the “systems integrator” that runs NSA’s internal IT system, defense and intelligence, contractors are making millions of dollars selling technology and services that help the world’s largest surveillance system spy on you. If the 70 percent figure is applied to the NSA’s estimated budget of $8 billion a year (the largest in the intelligence community), NSA contracting could reach as high as $6 billion every year.

But it’s probably much more than that.

[uncommonsense]

"direct access to our servers"

The term "direct access" leaves a hole big enough to fit 500 Hilderbeast tushies through.

The NSA wouldn't want "direct access", they would want data feeds that are ingestable to the Narus appliance that they use (Narus Solutions - Cyber 3.0: Rise of the Machines).