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Comment on 2006: Secret NSA spy room in AT&T switching centre.

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Google's Chief Architect, Yonatan Zunger in this post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YonatanZunger/posts/huwQsphBron notes his suspicions that the second slide ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-... ) subtly explains how the data collection works.

The way I see it is that by extracting data via man-in-the-middle (subject to HTTPs etc..., discussions elsewhere), the NSA and others could target packets that fit certain profiles of data, such as Googles, Facebooks etc...

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