Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @11:44AM from the keeping-an-eye-on-things dept.

Advocatus Diaboli writes Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned. Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed 'Levitation' are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to CBC News. Under Levitation, analysts with the electronic eavesdropping service can access information on about 10 to 15 million uploads and downloads of files from free websites each day, the document says.

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Re:Obviously didn't work so well... by viperidaenz · 2015-01-28 12:31 · Score: 3, Funny

The internet is a series of cats.
You pull a cat tail in New York, he know if it's for one of his neighbours and will pull the correct tail. If it's not he pulls the tail of a cat in another neighbourhood until a the right cat in LA meows.