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NSA Spies On International Payments
jones_supa writes "The National Security Agency (NSA) widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL. Information acquired by the former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, show that the spying is conducted by a branch called Follow the Money (FTM). The collected information then flows into the NSA's own financial databank, called Tracfin, which in 2011 contained 180 million records. Some 84 percent of the data is from credit card transactions."
NSA knows what you are up to with your credit card
Does this mean that the NSA is PCI Compliant?
No, they haven't had the required audit.
Which, given the revelations about how bad their data security is, they would have failed anyways.
They still don't know what Snowden took. Forget secrets or blackmailing politicians, if he wanted to Snowden could just use the data to steal a ridiculous amount of money. Thank goodness he seems to be a good person. The scary thing is somebody else might have done just that, and no one knows about it.
So lets pretend that we've just completed writing this code, as opposed to having just completed sabotaging it -Altera
I'm saying well done.
Please show us where in the constitution it's forbidden to monitor international monetary transactions.
No seriously, I'll wait.