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XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

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The Guardian; By Glenn Greenwald 		Mail this story
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XKeyscore, the documents boast, is the NSA's "widest reaching" system developing intelligence from computer networks – what the agency calls Digital Network Intelligence (DNI). One presentation claims the program covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet", including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata.

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Comments (5)

djohnston ·
Snowden isn't exaggerating.
Bob_Robertson ·
When the Utah datacenter was being described as a place where the NSA would keep "everything", that was no exaggeration either.
jdixon ·
> When the Utah datacenter was being described as a place where the NSA would keep "everything", that was no exaggeration either.

Hmm. Single point of failure? Probably not, but...
Bob_Robertson ·
JD, I would not even JOKE about that in a public forum. These people are well funded and nasty.
jdixon ·
> These people are well funded and nasty.

Well, I'm probably already on all their watch lists, so even if they take it that way I doubt it will make any difference.

It was more a comment about the usual shortsightedness of government agencies than anything else.

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