PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

Fri Jun 7 20:31:55 UTC 2013

I assume the unclassified word "Prism" (which is found everywhere on IC
resumes and open job descriptions) refers to Palantir's Prism suite.  Could
be wrong, but seems logical.

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Warren Bailey <
wbailey at satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:

> Has anyone found out if this system is actually based on Narus? I
> associated this program as a super version of the AT&T thing, and if I
> recall it was understood that was Narus and Co via NSA/FBI?
>
>
> Sent from my Mobile Device.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>
> Date: 06/07/2013 12:16 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>
>
> > On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:57:07 -0700, Mark Seiden said:
> > > and also, only $20m/year? in my experience, the govt cannot do
> > > anything like this addressing even a single provider for that little
> money.
> >
> > Convince me the *real* number doesn't have another zero.
> >
> > Remember - the $20M number came from a source that has *very* good
> > reason to lie as much as it can right now about the true extent of this.
>
> Indeed.  Luckily, the press is all over this like a bad smell.
>
> I mentioned The Story in a new posting just now; they have, surprisingly,
> already managed to dig at this spot, a pretty quick response for them:
>
> http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-06/americans-spying-americans
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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