XKeyscore makes Prism seem tame

[Gary]

The cover has been blown on an NSA program which collects data on "nearly everything a user does on the internet" even as the debate rages over the secretive US agency's mass surveillance of innocent people.

The XKeyscore program covers emails, social media activity and browsing history and is accessible to NSA analysts with little or no prior authorisation, according to a leaked presentation published by The Guardian today.

'They don't even have to know who you are to track you down'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/31/prism_put_in_the_shade_by_leak_about_even_more_powerful_snoop_tool/

[Simon]

[Gary]

so how many TV progtams like 'person of interest' and books like 1984 have come true in the last month or so... 

[mervl]

"We do because we can". Don't we all?

[pctech]

What the inside of an NSA data centre looks like

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/07/31/what-the-inside-of-an-nsa-data-center-looks-like/