PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

Sun Jun 9 19:23:17 UTC 2013

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:17:14PM -0700, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas
> 
> the headline may be misleading.
> 
> Presidential Policy Directive 20 defines OCEO as "operations and
> related programs or activities ? conducted by or on behalf of the
> United States Government, in or through cyberspace, that are intended
> to enable or produce cyber effects outside United States government
> networks."
> 
> effects outside United States government networks.
> 
> now there's an interesting phrase.
> 
> OCEO == "Offensive Cyber Effects Operations".

No more so than describing NSA operations as "research in communications
phenomena", which used to be the (UNCLAS) party line.

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