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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:32 PM Oct 2013

From Le Monde:

Quotations regarding the functioning and capacity of Boundless Informant (from American documents revealed by Snowden and Greenwald):

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/10/30/que-dit-le-document-sur-la-surveillance-telephonique-de-la-nsa-en-france_3505263_651865.html

Sorry. I don't know how to copy the text. The newspaper quotes several paragraphs claimed to be excerpts from documents printed in the Guardian that detail precisely how Boundless Informant works. It's utterly terrifying to me. The program is invasive and thorough beyond belief as I understand the description. Plus as I understand it, it kind of runs on its own, linking people all over the world in ways that they may not be linked at all. It is at the same time very thorough and very superficial.

Looks like we have no privacy whatsoever.

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Thanks for doing that. I know that you post quite a bit and say interesting thing. JDPriestly Oct 2013 #4

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JDPriestly

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4. Thanks for doing that. I know that you post quite a bit and say interesting thing.
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 11:50 AM
Oct 2013

So, thanks again. Don't want to get DU into trouble.

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