
Conspirologists can open champagne: the second time in two days . The National Security Agency (National Agency, NSA) and the FBI have direct and unlimited access to the servers of the largest American technological companies, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple. According to The Washington Post , using a secret system called PRISM, departments extract text and video chassis, photos, documents, emails that help analysts monitor foreign goals.
US National Intelligence Director James Clapper confirmed the data of journalists, but clarified that they were monitored in the FBI and NSA exclusively for foreign citizens who are outside the United States. If specified, we are talking about you and you. According to Clapper, this information has played a key role in the protection of the country from terrorist attacks in the past few years. How can American citizens be sure that their correspondence from Facebook does not fall into the hands of special services? They must believe Clapper for a word.
Most of The Washington Post of Internet companies hastened to say that they did not know anything about Prism. The degree of their involvement is still in question.
Now it will be interesting to observe the reaction of foreign states. Russian politicians and representatives of special services like to periodically declare the need to regulate the work of services like Skype and Gmail. Do not be surprised if in the very near future you will hear such conversations again.