On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:11 AM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:45:26 -0500, Aaron Wendel said: > >> We (ISPs) are all compelled to provide information from time to time >> under a court order. The PRISM program is voluntary. > > Ask the ex-CEO of Qwest how "voluntary" that sort of stuff is.
it REALLY depends on what 'prisim' is... seen in one light, the program is 'just' isp/asp people who agree to permit FISA requests to be satisfied via: "scp files from fisa.isp.net with key fingerprint 0xasdasdasd" of course, the other way to read it (as the news would like us to believe) is as: "plug nsa ethernet into eth1 of all servers and routers, kthxbi!" more details would certainly make this whole conversation less alamist and more rational. -chris