It essentially shows evidence supporting the idea that the US government has system in place to intercept and record (for later use) all phone callss, emails, text, and pretty much any form of electronic communications.
The skeptic in me says this would be impressive (and let me tell you, recording everything would be pretty damn impressive!), so I do have my doubts about their actually capabilities. Sure they can probably read these words here, but do they track my every move on the internet? My every GPS signal on my phone? Probably not. It also seems funny to think how these actions, if they are truly being done in secrecy, could push its own citizens 'underground.' So I guess Logan might actually have a point when he says the interenet community is being driven underground...more like Uncle Sam is stomping us into a wormhole.
dude this is nothing new. big brother is always watching.
in oz everything goes through the echelon system. every keystroke is monitored. say bomb a few times over the phone to someone then watch via wireshark who looks at your packets.
gotta realize that the internet was created by the military.
To use phones as an example, your mobile provider is required for security reasons and law reasons that they have to record and keep records of your calls and texts. The government can access this with the proper paper work, and probably most of the time no paper word at all. This has been happening for a very long time though, and is nothing new.
I'd like to see the datacenters that record every internet transaction. I remain skeptical and still think some of you are paranoid lol.
Some things are actually quite new, like PayPal's recent SSN requirement, which obviously shows how the gov is monitoring our monetary transactions directly, but every keystroke, opened tab, etc? Lol they don't even know who owns every PC out there...anonymity reigns supreme in many cases, especially if someone is trying to be discrete about it.
There was a Wired article I read once on the new NSA data center thry are building. It's supposed to be thousands of petabytes in capacity if I remember correctly and it is designed to monitor almost all traffic. Pretty scary shit.
anonymity only goes so far. you will always leave a trace, some footprint whilst communicating on anything other than 2 cups and a piece of string these days. there is bloody logs kept for near on everything.