PRISM was a NSA project that surreptitiously collected personal, user and password information on pretty much all of western Europe up to a few days ago, storing it in a huge database in Delaware and Virginia. Snowden told wikileaks about this and it turns out that they were doing it without permission from the companies they were getting the info from by tapping into data lines in international waters. (Google is right royally pissed about it, as are France, Germany, Switzerland and a few others except Britain, who already had this kind of full surveillance on all of their citizens which they sold to the NSA for a good price.) Turns out that American citizens abroad also fell foul of this program, including several prominent bussinessmen, who are crying foul because the NSA data was obtained illegally, both in US and international courts. Of course the NSA is saying, "we're just hunting terrorists! It's all good!".
Unfortunately, that security breach has left back doors in internet service providers that hackers will be able to break into in time, making no major companies' database safe.
So people are all over that shit and crying "end of the free internet, cloud computing is fucked 'cause the US can't keep it in their pants or behind their own borders."
Since you mentioned that you'd run afoul of the NSA, as many of my associates abroad have also been, I was asking if you'd been caught up in the PRISM scandal as well.
(I hear Siberia is quite nice this time of year, climate change and all that - the gulag should be full of wildflowers right about now.)
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