New slides reveal greater detail about PRISM data collection
Found on CNet News on Sunday, 30 June 2013
Slides published by The Washington Post appear to confirm that the NSA and FBI have the ability to perform real-time surveillance of e-mail and stored content.
The slides also seem to contradict denials from tech companies such as Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft about their level of participation in the program.
Microsoft was the first company to join the program in September 2007, according to one slide, followed by Yahoo about six months later and Google in early 2009, according to one of the slides.
Trust nobody. That's always the best approach. The only way to fight this massive surveillance is either to avoid the Internet and phone networks, or to use strong encryption. We've seen that officials and companies will lie to you, so even if they promise a change nobody can trust them. You need to take your privacy into your own hands and an essential key is easy to use encryption. So easy that even your grandmother can use it. In fact, everybody needs to use it so that there is as much encrypted data as possible. If only a few enthusiasts use it their data can be stored for later; but if there is too much data to handle it will become useless.