As Surveillance Costs Fall, Could the NSA Gain Ability To Record & Replay Every Call, Everywhere? - YouTube

As Surveillance Costs Fall, Could the NSA Gain Ability To Record & Replay Every Call, Everywhere? - YouTube

 The latest disclosures from Edward Snowden
show the National Security Agency is recording every single phone call
made in an undisclosed foreign country. A surveillance system called
MYSTIC stores the billions of phone conversations for up to
30 days. Agents are able to rewind and review any conversation within
the previous month using a tool codenamed RETRO. One senior manager for
the program compared it to a time machine. We speak to Ashkan Soltani,
who co-wrote the Washington Post exposé on MYSTIC, and has closely
studied the cost of surveillance. He has co-written a series of other
exposés for the Post that revealed how the NSA uses Google cookies to
pinpoint targets for hacking and how the NSA secretly broke into the
main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers
around the world.