[Wikimedia-l] PRISM

[Anthony]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>wrote:

> > PRISM
>
> From @ShammaBoyarin on Twitter: "Its not as if the NSA were mass
> downloading articles from JSTOR."


Certainly if the evidence showed that the NSA were breaking into wiring
closets and hacking into computer networks this would be a much different
story.

(Yes, you can speculate that they're probably doing this too, but this
particular scandal is the NSA getting information from computer networks
with the permission of the computer owners, not despite the owners actively
trying to keep them out.)