NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say

[jakeXT]

In this presentation slide on “Google Cloud Exploitation,” a sketch shows where the “Public Internet” meets the internal “Google Cloud” where user data resides.

The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.

By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.

According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html

[nashville_brook]

1. love that this is on a post-it note

damn, NSA needs to hire some graphic designers.

[SlipperySlope]

4. K&R for importance

People need to pay attention to this shit. This is a big deal.

Imagine how livid we would be if they had come out under Bush.

[BlueCheese]

2. SSL Added and removed here :)

My goodness.

[sabrina 1]

3. The potential for abuse of

new technology is always there and has always happened until laws are passed to reign in the abuses.

In the past it was generally confined to individual countries, now it's global and the need for International laws has been made clear.

And now the Global Community is finally addressing the issue.

China, Russia, European countries, not just the US, all of them will have to either agree that without regulations, everyone is subject to what has been revealed, or be viewed as a rogue nation.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Why bother with a middleman when Google and Yahoo can do it so much better?

[closeupready]

6. Isn't this against the law?

?

[Luminous Animal]

7. Kick.