NSA Secrets Quotes

“The Internet “is a TV that watches you,” he said, a technology “governments are abusing … to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.”
― The Washington Post, NSA Secrets: Government Spying in the Internet Age

“Some privacy advocates favor payments to companies when they comply with surveillance efforts because the costs can be a brake on overly broad requests by government officials. Invoices also can provide a paper trail to help expose the extent of spying.”
― The Washington Post, NSA Secrets: Government Spying in the Internet Age

“Lawyers for the agency came up with an interpretation that said the NSA did not “acquire” the communications, a term with formal meaning in surveillance law, until analysts ran searches against it. The NSA could “obtain” metadata in bulk, they argued, without meeting the required standards for acquisition.”
― The Washington Post, NSA Secrets: Government Spying in the Internet Age

“The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many”
― The Washington Post, NSA Secrets: Government Spying in the Internet Age

“There is no evidence that the NSA is capable of unmasking Tor traffic routinely on a global scale. But for almost seven years, it has been trying.”
― The Washington Post, NSA Secrets: Government Spying in the Internet Age

“The budget documents obtained by The Post list $65.96 million for BLARNEY, $94.74 million for FAIRVIEW, $46.04 million for STORMBREW and $9.41 million for OAKSTAR. It is unclear why the total of these four programs amounts to less than the overall budget of $278 million.”
― The Washington Post, NSA Secrets: Government Spying in the Internet Age