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[Cryptography] EFF press release on latest FISA opinions release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Sep 10 19:12:40 2013
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:12:32 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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The documents haven't yet been completely processed, but they've
already found some interesting features.
Quoting:
The NSA apparently believed that it had the authority to search
the telephone records database in order to obtain the 'reasonable
articulable suspicion' required to investigate those numbers.
Essentially, they were conducting suspicionless searches to obtain
the suspicion the FISA court required to conduct searches.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/government-releases-nsa-surveillance-docs-and-previously-secret-fisa-court
Note that the USG has misleadingly claimed that this document release
was part of an effort to be "transparent" -- in fact, these are the
result of an EFF FOIA and were released at court order.
--
Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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