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New NSA Leak Reveals Biggest Secret Yet?
NSA Project X-Keyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet
John Biggs
Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Y
Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called X-Keyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the Internet – from chat sessions to email to browsing habits.
The system requires an email because many behaviors online are completely anonymous and it is only via some sort of identifier – a username and domain – that the system can scour the database of collected Internet traffic and metadata.
As Snowden said to the Guardian on June 10, “I, sitting at my desk could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.” X-Keyscore is how it is done.
The system is available to NSA analysts and can be accessed without a warrant. According to training manuals produced in 2010, the system requires analysts to request data on certain individuals. The system then scans traffic beginning and terminating the United States using keyword searches. The system can also search Facebook comments as well as other social media data.
everything is watched, even pw’s. don’t believe me? i have a very unusual pw and today all but one character appeared in the login confirmation code that some sites use to discourage bots. now if some mechanism isn’t reading that password, how did it turn up in that code??
like i said, everything digital is watched… EVERYTHING! at least they know how much i despise tyrannical, fascist control freaks and their sociopath dictators!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68rUZyuV8Rk