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drugstorecowboyyesterday at 4:35 PM1 replyview on HN

Ok, but nothing in that leaked slide says anything about a court order or disproves much of anything about PRISM. I'm not saying you are wrong, in fact I sincerely hope you are 100% correct, but all that slide says to me is that the "FBI DITU" got the data somehow, and forwarded it to CIA, NSA, and the rest of the FBI. Additionally, lets be honest, a single image of a slide posted on imgur is a lot more "trust me bro" than it is proof.


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lern_too_spelyesterday at 4:52 PM

Snowden and Greenwald interpreted DITU as being a box in these companies' networks with access to everything because they were too stupid to look up what it meant. That slide was the basis of their entire claim. If Snowden's claim isn't "trust me bro," nothing is. Instead, the companies said they didn't do any integration with the NSA (they hadn't, only with the FBI), and they didn't give access to every account's data (they didn't, only with a court order or Section 702 order for a specific account's data).

The NYT got the story right on day one because unlike The Guardian, their editorial standards require asking someone who knows something about what was going on. In this case, they asked workers at the companies. Subsequently, every single mainstream news agency got the reporting correct except for Greenwald, who continued to argue against tech industry workers correcting him on Twitter.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/no-evidence-of-nsas-...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/06/prism-isnt-data-mini...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-did-mainstream-media-get-t...

https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/how-to-talk-about-prism-and-...

https://medium.com/prism-truth/the-prism-details-matter-82a1...

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