Court Order told Yahoo that Prism does not require a warrant [pdf]
Wait, are there actually people in the US who still assume that there someone has to get a warrant to investigate them under the auspices of terrorism or National Security? I assumed this was a more or less accepted fact by now.<p>They take everything they want off the wire anyway; the best case scenario is that they have FISA rubber stamp warrants for the times where they "need a warrant".<p>Do we really care about specific instances of uses of PRISM?  I mean, in an honest way I'm curious :: is there really any benefit if we could definitely prove that PRISM was used without a warrant? Is it worse than any of the other things that have been disclosed or leaked since originally finding out about PRISM?<p>I don't think so, but I was screaming bloody murder about NSLs in 2006, soooo......