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RyanZAG on July 31, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything...

In 2008 Facebook ran on HTTP, so back then it would have been easy to sniff this data. I believe Gmail also transferred in plain text back then. When those companies switched to HTTPS, the NSA likely 'leverage some pressure' to get them to join PRISM, which puts the data back in this system.

martin_k on July 31, 2013 [–]

You've got your timeline wrong. Facebook didn't support HTTPS for anything but user login until 2011.

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