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    1. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai‏Verified account @lorenzofb 6 Dec 2017

      Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Retweeted Thomas H. Ptacek

      This is an unintended consequence of the @Snowden leaks. The NSA can't hack inside the US, so if you use Gmail, TAO is likely not legally able to get into your inbox. But people freak out and forget this because they just assume NSA does whatever it wants.https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/938551311397728257 …

      Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai added,

      Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf
      Replying to @lorenzofb @patrickdehahn
      Your first bullet assumes that the NSA would be bound by Swiss rules. But the opposite fact pattern is already in evidence.
      12 replies 15 retweets 40 likes
    2. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 6 Dec 2017
      Replying to @lorenzofb

      Both sides here are a bit confused. Google is a PRISM partner: NSA has 100% guaranteed, provider-enabled access to the inbox of any non-USP they want, so if your concern is NSA, hard to think of a worse choice. For USPs, FBI can get the same, but w warrant. TAO irrelevant here.

      11 replies 73 retweets 168 likes
    3. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai‏Verified account @lorenzofb 6 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Snowden

      TAO is relevant of you use non US email providers. (Hard to explain yourself in tweets)

      2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 6 Dec 2017
      Replying to @lorenzofb

      Respectfully, misses the point. Requiring NSA to have a ROC operator hack an email provider and task the implant to specially exfiltrate your inbox back to the mother ship is enormously less likely than a persona analyst going "hm, my guy uses Gmail. Let me get my Word template."

      4:16 PM - 6 Dec 2017
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        2. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai‏Verified account @lorenzofb 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Snowden

          By word template I'm assuming you mean the PRISM request?

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @lorenzofb

          Yes. @tqbf's take is magical thinking, presuming if NSA *has the authority* to try and hack something, they already have (and have no concerns on exfil volume, resourcing, etc). He's no dummy (he was right on DNSSEC; I was wrong), but I feel misses the forest for the trees here.

          1 reply 5 retweets 22 likes
        4. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Snowden @lorenzofb @tqbf

          Provider-enabled disclosure is *always* a more realistic threat than "NSA's overscheduled hacker unit is running a live op to get my personal mail spool," because the cheapest, laziest access mechanism is the most likely to be used. But neither is the primary risk for most folks.

          3 replies 5 retweets 23 likes
        5. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Snowden @lorenzofb

          On the latter point we agree, which militates even more strongly against adopting random “secure” email providers overseas.

          2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
        6. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @tqbf @Snowden @lorenzofb

          I am not coming from a place of undying love for Google or patriotic fervor for storing emails in US data centers.

          3 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
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        1. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Snowden @lorenzofb

          Why are we stipulating these providers aren’t already owned up? Teenagers have owned and held more consequential sites in the last 5 years.

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        1. jennifer*‏ @Queen_jenni 10 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Snowden

          just saw your movie #Snowden you are a very brave man. Btw I always knew they were violating our privacy and you publicly proved it

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        2. Hans‏ @snowwrestler 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Snowden @lorenzofb

          NSA gains access to bulk foreign email data by helping foreign intelligence services penetrate foreign data centers and then share data back to NSA. Since the data is foreign sourced (shared from foreign partner), NSA can presume no USP data and store in bulk.

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        3. Hans‏ @snowwrestler 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @snowwrestler @Snowden @lorenzofb

          How do we know? Because NSA did this to Google, *despite* the availability of PRISM. The infamous smiley face slide. :-)

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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