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NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
Washington Post ^
Posted on 10/14/2013 4:19:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addressbooks; adressbooks; edwardsnowden; emails; nsa; nsascandal; snowden
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
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posted on
10/14/2013 5:47:57 PM PDT
by
Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
(If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
To: ConservativeMan55; onyx; All
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posted on
10/14/2013 6:11:46 PM PDT
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
10/14/2013 6:13:24 PM PDT
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
10/14/2013 6:16:06 PM PDT
by
Triple
(Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
To: Travis McGee
Brilliant! Except it is sooo true, sad to say...
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posted on
10/14/2013 6:16:39 PM PDT
by
Shady
(It is called LIBERTY...Freedom linked to Responsibility. Any questions?)
To: Squantos; FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
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Thank You."
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posted on
10/14/2013 6:19:57 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: Travis McGee
You see Tony Heaton’s “Todd Dullard” (might have meant Bob Bullard) comment?
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posted on
10/14/2013 6:35:45 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: ConservativeMan55
From the article:
Each day, the presentation said, the NSA collects contacts from an estimated 500,000 buddy lists on live-chat services as well as from the inbox displays of Web-based e-mail accounts.
That right there makes me glad I've never used web-based email.
I have a couple of throw-away gmail accounts, but that's it.
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posted on
10/14/2013 6:46:34 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
To: Travis McGee
To: ADemocratNoMore; Akron Al; arbee4bush; agrace; ATOMIC_PUNK; Badeye; Bikers4Bush; BlindedByTruth; ...
Of possible interest to the PING list members..
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posted on
10/15/2013 3:59:18 AM PDT
by
Las Vegas Dave
(The Democratic party preys on the ignorant..!)
To: ConservativeMan55
pssst. The Matrix Has you.
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posted on
10/15/2013 4:05:09 AM PDT
by
RC one
To: Jack Hammer
Hmmm... photos
The emails I get back from lady spies almost always have phone numbers
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posted on
10/15/2013 4:53:03 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: Las Vegas Dave
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posted on
10/15/2013 5:37:15 AM PDT
by
khelus
To: Travis McGee
Dang, that’s creepy good.
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posted on
10/15/2013 6:06:04 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: ConservativeMan55
No true purpose to so much info other than spending our money. Backing up the entire Web?
35
posted on
10/15/2013 7:16:16 AM PDT
by
smilebig1
(Uncle Sam don't touch me there)
To: John W
The volume of NSA contacts collection is so high that it has occasionally threatened to overwhelm storage repositories, forcing the agency to halt its intake with "emergency detasking" orders. The example cited in the article:
In fall 2011, according to an NSA presentation, the Yahoo account of an Iranian target was "hacked by an unknown actor," who used it to send spam. The Iranian had "a number of Yahoo groups in his/her contact list, some with many hundreds or thousands of members." The cascading effects of repeated spam messages, compounded by the automatic addition of the Iranian's contacts to other people's address books, led to a massive spike in the volume of traffic collected by the Australian intelligence service on the NSA's behalf.
After nine days of data-bombing, the Iranian's contact book and contact books for several people within it were "emergency detasked."
So, these idiots stop monitoring an Iranian target (i.e. a suspicious person of interest who is a citizen of a hostile power) because the boner-pill ads are using up too much storage space, but they continue their illegal surveillance of millions of honest American citizens??
I'm not sure where these people belong: in prison, or in a lunatic asylum.
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:54:49 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
To: ConservativeMan55
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posted on
10/15/2013 8:01:22 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: RC one
pssst. The Matrix Has you. It IS possible to operate outside of the Matrix, but that doesn't preclude you from discovery.
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posted on
10/15/2013 9:29:34 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: rarestia
Hey Big Mucky mucks at NSA et al, while you’re collecting everyone’s e-mails, find the spammers and delete my addresses. I Don’t Need Viagra!
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