NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters 394
barlevg writes "The Washington Post reports that, according to documents obtained from Edward Snowden, through their so-called 'MUSCULAR' initiative, the National Security Agency has exploited a weakness in the transfers between data centers, which Google and others pay a premium to send over secure fiber optic cables. The leaked documents include a post-it note as part of an internal NSA Powerpoint presentation showing a diagram of Google network traffic, an arrow pointing to the Google front-end server with text reading, 'SSL Added and Removed Here' with a smiley face. When shown the sketch by The Post and asked for comment, two engineers with close ties to Google responded with strings of profanity." The Washington Post report is also summarized at SlashBI. Also in can't-trust-the-government-not-to-spy news, an anonymous reader writes: "According to recent reports, the National Security Agency collects 'one-end foreign' Internet metadata as it passes through the United States. The notion is that purely domestic communications should receive greater protection, and that ordinary Americans won't send much personal information outside the country. A researcher at Stanford put this hypothesis to the test... and found that popular U.S. websites routinely pass browsing activity to international servers. Even the House of Representatives website was sending traffic to London. When the NSA vacuums up international Internet metadata, then, it's also snooping on domestic web browsing by millions of Americans."
Re:When will the sheep look up (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what's taking so long (Score:5, Funny)
Is there some reason the NSA is still around?
Yes. They have a file on everyone in Congress.
New Acronym (Score:2, Funny)
NSA = Nothing Sacred Anymore
Re:Terms of Service violation (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, sure, it would more than* double their traffic!
* "more than," because double of nothing is still nothing.
Re:"secure fiber optic cables" (Score:2, Funny)
Feeling pretty secure in that claim, are you?
Re:I'm for this (Score:5, Funny)
we had two countries telling us to watch the bomber
They should have e-mailed eachother. Then we would have caught it.
Re:sounds like a man in the middle (Score:5, Funny)
NSA stands for National Security Asshole. You were correct the first time.
Re:When will the sheep look up (Score:5, Funny)
Speak for yourself. I don't care about dogs or tiny fetuses. I DO care about boobies on TV. There should be far, far more of them, preferably exposed in one form or another.
Re:When will the sheep look up (Score:5, Funny)
At this point, Nixon's head on a giant killer robot body might be a good choice. "Cyborg Nixon: Because he doesn't seem so evil by comparison."
Warrantless Land Line Tapping = Const. Violation (Score:5, Funny)
The Supreme Court is really clear on this. If you tap a land line without a warrant, you violate the Constitution.