Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
That's a brilliant example of when I wouldn't mind someone's private information on the web exposed so that those fellows' plans would've been revealed, and they would've gone to jail for the rest of their lives instead of blowing up dozens of ppl... (hey SnowdenThread)
As for me, I don't really care if PRISM reads my emails and stuff. Unless they start arresting people who forgot to brush their teeth then I'm safe, lol.
But PRISM = FAIL. It was operating when the Tsarnaev brothers were making their plans online.

Perhaps if we were doing the targeted surveillance envisioned by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., when he wrote the Patriot Act, we wouldn't need so many potential security risks.
It boggles the mind that we didn't listen to the Russians when they warned about the Tsarnaev brothers in part because, well, they're the Russians. But we want to preserve the records of every housewife in Des Moines because data mining that arguably invades the privacy rights of innocent Americans might reveal something.
One person whose privacy was not invaded by U.S. intelligence was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as he repeatedly visited the al-Qaida online magazine Inspire for its recipe "Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."
The NSA's blanket surveillance did not detect Tsarnaev's interest in building the pressure cooker bombs he would use to devastating effect at the Boston Marathon. The massive databases that we are building a massive facility in Utah to store also failed to uncover the online communications that Tsarnaev had with a known Muslim extremist in Dagestan.
Author James Sensenbrenner Says NSA Exceeded Patriot Act Authority - Investors.com

They put his face on Rolling Stone magazine. Not good! They should have put Maria Brink's face on that instead! That would be worth looking at!
Btw, this is the first time I knew that the Tsarnaev brothers aren't Russian. All our media said they were Russian. Our media is Fail again.