> The report mentions that they have direct access to ISP's servers as > well as service providers such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. Since > most US users end up going to US websites, does this imply that NSA now > has end-to-end correlation available on most US internet users? I.e. is > Tor's usefulness finished for Americans?
That is clueless newsspeak, direct access to servers would be silly. What is new 'news' here is that this is most likely a meta / realtime interface to particular datasets, and tool development for same, use your imagination here. And certainly a formal direct path to their respective government liason desks in the web3.0/etc sector. Anyone who has been following 'news', since say 2000, might rightly be able to imply a number of things? One of those might be that governments have both their own capabilities, and can harness those of corporations (such as telecoms, social, mail, OS), to suit their interests, lawful or otherwise? Is it not hard to speculate that, cooperation or not, tapping the mesh of Tier-1 and corporate exchange points would not provide significant correlation for wholly resident communications? Or that simple 'here you go, enjoy the data' giveaways under corporate immunity provisions? And triple and more massive datacenter builds? You don't build those things unless your napkin sketch says it is doable. But to what ends? The remaining real questions might be, are you of interest? And where are the canaries? Where news reports of all these 'terrorists' being stopped and jailed? Does such common crimefighting have such need for secrecy? What are the ends? Geopolitical? Local? What does history say? What is the future? _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
