{"id":1720,"date":"2013-06-07T05:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2013-06-07T05:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:15:37","slug":"the-nsa-intercepts-everything-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"The NSA Intercepts Everything: Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/06\/us-tech-giants-nsa-data\">writing for The Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.<br \/>\n  The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is this such a shock? Who didn&#8217;t already suspect this was going on? I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s finally public, and only surprised it took this long. Unfortunately, the man whose done us all this heroic favor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/07\/business\/media\/anti-surveillance-activist-is-at-center-of-new-leak.html?hp&amp;_r=0\">will probably be prosecuted<\/a>. Any of the occasional talk in congress about <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/hillicon-valley\/technology\/295221-this-week-in-tech-congress-moves-on-email-privacy-bill\">bills that protect online privacy<\/a> are laughable in this context.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I have long believed that our government should obtain a search warrant \u2014 issued by a court \u2014 before gaining access to private communications,&#8221; Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said last week. &#8220;I have worked over the last several years to update our federal privacy laws to better safeguard our privacy rights in the digital age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald, writing for The Guardian: The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}