Post #4077420

2026-07-25 01:23 UTC

Who remembers these slides leaked by Snowden back in 2013, detailing how big players were working as actual "providers" for the US NSA's PRISM program. Not via warrants, but as data sharing partners. I remember in the 4 yrs before, when @k0a1a@tldr.nettime.org & I were lecturing on precisely this, privacy workshops, making interventions to alert people to the risks, we'd be scowled at, sometimes even angrily. Told we were being doomer. A shiny-eyed tech optimism that aged badly, then forgot about it all

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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange 2026-07-25 02:05

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social @k0a1a@tldr.nettime.org me. I wrote this then https://web.archive.org/web/20130622071019/https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/opinion/Gary-McGraw-NSA-data-collection-programs-demand-discussion-scrutiny

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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 01:39

@k0a1a@tldr.nettime.org Not to say we didn't also have a lot of support too, those with healthy paranoia and/or infrastructure people that could think through the harvest.

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@Earl@mast.john1126.com 2026-07-25 04:26

"They monitor your actions from your very own electronics." source: ITS TIME FOR THE WORDS WRITTEN IN THE LITTLE BOOK TO BE REVEALED - Godshealer7/YouTube @JulianOliver@mastodon.social @k0a1a@tldr.nettime.org #privacy #conspiracy #prophecy #Jesus

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@Pouakai@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 05:43

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social @k0a1a@tldr.nettime.org And more interestingly nobody remembered that happened when Obama was US president. People keep cherishing the 'good time' they thought Obama brought, but politicians are almost the same, corrupted, hypocritical, and evil.

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@kkarhan@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 03:20

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social @k0a1a@tldr.nettime.org all the #NSA collaborators are on my #Banlist!

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