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How the NSA's XKeyscore program works
NBC ^ | 7/31/13 | Yannick LeJacq

Posted on 08/01/2013 8:17:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Until Wednesday morning, you'd probably never heard of something called "XKeyscore," a program that the National Security Agency itself describes as its "widest reaching" means of gathering data from across the Internet. According to reports shared by NSA leaker Edward Snowden with the Guardian, is that in addition to all of the other recent revelations about the NSA's surveillance programs, by using XKeyscore, "analysts can also search by name, telephone number, IP address, keywords, the language in which the Internet activity was conducted or the type of browser used."

David Brown, who co-authored the recent book "Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry" under the pseudonym D.B. Grady, told NBC News Wednesday the main value of XKeyscore is that it serves as a first point of collection for massive amounts of data the NSA can now cull from digital activities, such as a person's email or Web browsing.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; computerprivacy; computertsecurity; democrats; dontspyonme; donttreadonme; encryption; govtabuse; internet; nsa; nsabrownshirts; nsaleaks; nsascandals; obama; privacy; rapeofliberty; scandals; tyranny; waronliberty; xkeyscore; xkeystore; yeswescan
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We don't need no stinking fourth amendment!
1 posted on 08/01/2013 8:17:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

If Bush did one-tenth of what this moron is doing the MSM then would have had conniptions.


2 posted on 08/01/2013 8:20:23 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Provided, of course, you don’t use Tor, an offshore commercial VPN, or a free wireless connection.


3 posted on 08/01/2013 8:21:19 AM PDT by proxy_user
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If Bush did one-tenth of what this moron is doing the MSM then would have had conniptions.

He did and they did.

4 posted on 08/01/2013 8:22:40 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Could one of you computer whizzes explain this in terms of FR? Does this program sweep in the titles or content of the articles we read on this site?


5 posted on 08/01/2013 8:23:38 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: SoFloFreeper; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

6 posted on 08/01/2013 8:26:17 AM PDT by null and void (You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Anyone familiar with TOR or Albine for privacy? I’m looking for a good program and haven’t a clue.


7 posted on 08/01/2013 8:27:33 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: SoFloFreeper

Maxine Waters was right.


8 posted on 08/01/2013 8:32:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


9 posted on 08/01/2013 8:35:17 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Shut up !

It`s just another phony scandal/sarc off


10 posted on 08/01/2013 8:36:13 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Happily in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians.)
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To: proxy_user

Tor still exposes your browsing targets to your provider if your are not diligent. TAILS on a bootable USB stick uses Tor and also ensures everything is SSL on both ends. TAILS on open wireless is best.


11 posted on 08/01/2013 8:37:00 AM PDT by wrencher
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To: Albion Wilde

The Pubbies have thrown in with Nancy Pelosi on this one.

When the backlash comes it will be driven by Libertarians.


12 posted on 08/01/2013 8:37:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

<< The Pubbies have thrown in with Nancy Pelosi on this one. When the backlash comes it will be driven by Libertarians. >>

I wonder how many RINOs have pacemakers or insulin pumps?


13 posted on 08/01/2013 8:43:22 AM PDT by Nita Nupress ( Use your mind, not your emotions. Refuse to be manipulated by Marxists!)
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To: Albion Wilde

In terms of FR? If you’re here, you’re probably on a death list.


14 posted on 08/01/2013 8:48:09 AM PDT by null and void (You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
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To: OpusatFR

Our techie has TOR on his laptop but it’s slow accdg to him. My advice? Buy a VPN using bitcoin as once u pay by CC, “they” will be able to read the PW once the emailed receipt comes in. And change your IP address once you do all these stuff..


15 posted on 08/01/2013 8:52:30 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: null and void

We all are.


16 posted on 08/01/2013 8:53:02 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: null and void

If my number’s up at least I’ll go out informed (And among friends.)


17 posted on 08/01/2013 8:56:56 AM PDT by k4gypsyrose
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To: wrencher

You mean DNS lookups? I believe there is a way around that with TOR. Many people don’t use their ISP’s DNS anyway. You could build your own DNS caching server if you wanted to.


18 posted on 08/01/2013 8:58:36 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: null and void

Thank you! New tagline. Did John Adams know Barack Obambi or WHAT???????!!!!!


19 posted on 08/01/2013 9:03:36 AM PDT by Shimmer1 ("What a poor, ignorant, malicious, crapulous mass." John Adams)
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To: Albion Wilde

Sounds like everything on every unencrypted website.


20 posted on 08/01/2013 9:11:45 AM PDT by matt04
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