Where "PRISM" come from?

[jaclaz]

What if the name "PRISM" actually came from an actual prism splitter of optical fibers?

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Some actual references :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/nsa-prism-data-mining_n_3399310.html

http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2004001159_spying08.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein

https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/SER_klein_decl.pdf

At least it would make sense lexically.

jaclaz

[CharlotteTheHarlot]

What if the name "PRISM" actually came from an actual prism splitter of optical fibers?

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Very good. I like that analogy. Since a crystal like that can separate "white" light into its constituent colors or wavelengths, the white light represents a mixed stream of communications and the individual colors are the specific ones that they pull out.

It would seem they got lucky with that name. Or not