----- Forwarded message from "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> ----- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:12:32 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> To: cryptography@metzdowd.com Subject: [Cryptography] EFF press release on latest FISA opinions release X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0) 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-d... 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 _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5