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Re: latest Snowden docs show NSA intercepts all Google and Yahoo DC-to-DC traffic


From: berry () gadsdenst org
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 14:35:12 -0400

On 11/01/2013 01:08 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:

[...]


Given what we now know about the breadth of the NSA operations, and the
likelihood that this is still only the tip of the iceberg - would anyone
still point to NSA guidance on avoiding monitoring with any sort of
confidence?

There has always been cognitive dissonance in the dual roles of the NSA:
1. The NSA monitors.
2. The NSA provides guidance on how to avoid being monitored.

Conflict?

-DMM

As a local 'barbecue baron' said about his brother's competing
restaurants: "I taught him everything he knows about barbecue. I just
didn't teach him everything _I_ know about barbecue."




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