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NSA Can't Search Its Own Email

Posted by Unknown on from the apt-get-install-thinthread dept.

cycoj writes "The NSA says that there is no central method to search its own email. When asked in a Freedom of Information Act request for emails with the National Geographic Channel over a specific time period, the agency, which has been collecting and analyzing the data of hundreds of millions of Internet users, says it can only perform person-per-person searches on its own email."

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  1. Don't worry. by auric_dude · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm sure GCHQ https://www.gchq.gov.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx will search your mail and that CESG https://www.gchq.gov.uk/AboutUs/Pages/CESG.aspx will advise you on how to fix your problem.

  2. Re:"Can't" vs. "Don't Want To" by djmurdoch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Suppose that instead of "National Geographic", someone at the NSA wanted to search every email that was sent to Snowden's Gmail account from within the NSA.

    Do you think they would be able to do that? Not being able to do that sounds like a security problem.