The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA

27B Stroke 6:

• "The internet surveillance program covers domestic traffic, not just international traffic. Marcus notes that the AT&T spy rooms are 'in far more locations than would be required to catch the majority of international traffic'; the configuration in the San Francisco office promiscuously sends all data into the secret room; and there's no reliable way an analysis could infer a user's physical location from their IP address. This, of course, directly contradicts President Bush's description of the 'Terrorist Surveillance Program.'
• The system is capable of looking at content, not just addresses. The configuration described in the Klein documents -- presumably the Narus software in particular -- 'exists primarily to conduct sophisticated rule-based analysis of content', Marcus concludes."

(Via a DefenseTech.)