On: Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap...

[waihtis]

This article is about 10x better in terms of explaining XKEYSCORE than the mess which is XKEYSCORE's Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore#Workings

[StanislavPetrov → waihtis]

Its almost like Wikipedia is largely run by an army of Philip Cross like people/agents whose goal is to manage the information that people see.

https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/

[lern_too_spel → waihtis]

The reason the Wikipedia article is so confusing is that it has to explain Greenwald's and Snowden's explanation of XKEYSCORE, which was wrong.

[jorblumesea → waihtis]

If all we have to go off of is the slides and rumors, it's still not super clear exactly how it works. Even for HN users, which are largely engineers, it can be confusing. If you're a wikipedia editor, probably more so.

[waihtis → jorblumesea]

Agreed, though the big thing missing from the Wikipedia article is the root data collection method - cable tapping - which makes all the difference in explaining an ubiquitous surveillance system.