Comment on Just a hunch that most social media platforms run off government servers
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 2 years agoNSA mirrors ALL US traffic in real time with an optical system tied to the main fibers, i.e. a literal Prism and Mirror.
Echelon was the original program and it operates by sieving data not storing it.
My guess is that yes, the NSA runs its own servers, and no, Amazon is not part of that.
But, this dilemma has been known for decades...
"Hi, Mr. Local ISP! My name is Gary Owen and I'm an FBI agent. I need everything you have on this suspect...."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Owen, but we can't divulge customer data."
"OK, then I've got a warrant for confiscation of all your hard drives based on the possibility of you colluding with my suspect to do something illegal. You'll be out of business of course because it takes us two years to get the drives back to you..."
"OK, take whatever you want."
Every. Time.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I mean they do have direct access to Amazons servers. Ive worked for a cloud providers. The FBI , CIA make appointments. They get unrestricted physical access to the servers. They shut the doors and don't let anyone else in while they do their thing. No one is allowed to ask what they did. They also have contracts to run their software on those servers. So they are in every data center.