*Making Sense from Snowden:** **What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations* * * /Susan Landau /IEEE Security and Privacy, July/August 2013, p. 54-63 On 6 June 2013, British news- paper The Guardian reported on a secret US National Security Agency (NSA) program to col- lect domestic telecommunications metadata—the who, what, and when of phone calls—from Veri- zon Business Networks Services.1 A day later, the paper revealed details about PRISM, an NSA program that targeted the Inter- net communications and stored data of “non-US persons” outside the US and those communicat- ing with them, and the extent to which US companies cooperate with the government.2 More leaks followed, with details about the US government spying on Chinese computers, news that the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ had used a monitored Internet cafe? to eavesdrop on the communica- tions of political leaders attending the 2009 London G20 summit,3 that the British were themselves conducting massive intercepts of domestic communications, and that the NSA had been collecting metadata from domestic Internet communications. [...] Continua qui: http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/pdfs/MakingSenseFromSn...