[Wikimedia-l] PRISM

[Tobias]

On 06/10/2013 12:21 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> Correct. If Osama Bin Laden had been editing Wikipedia, before his death
> of course, through some account in Pakistan, it would have been rather
> reasonable to respond favorable to a request for information. But "plenty
> of reason to think the government would be interested in Wikipedia access
> logs" No, massive amounts of information about people doing ordinary
> things like editing articles about Homer Simpson is kind of the opposite
> of intelligence; it IS the haystack, not the needle.

The same is true of the Internet. The Internet is the haystack, the
terrorists™ are the needle.

The whole point of the NSA is looking through the haystack. It's what
they're experts in. Don't think that just because the information is
"mostly harmless" that it couldn't be interesting to an agency.

-- Tobias