How Traffic Shaping Can Help the NSA Evade Legal Oversight

Current Berkman People and Projects 2014-07-01

Summary:

New research paper on how the NSA can evade legal prohibitions against collecting Internet data and metadata on Americans by forcing domestic traffic to leave and return to the US. The general technique is called "traffic shaping," and has legitimate uses in network management. From a news article: The Obama administration previously said there had been Congressional and Judicial oversight...

Link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/how_traffic_sha.html

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academicpapers borders courts dataretention hacking metadata nationalsecuritypolicy nsa

Authors:

schneier

Date tagged:

07/01/2014, 16:40

Date published:

07/01/2014, 16:23