The "Dates when Prism began for each provider" slide... those are all chat protocols, except Youtube

[Recursion]

And even Youtube has an asynchronous messaging protocol.

In many technical situations, a communications protocol is called a "provider".

This is just a very strange slide, and I don't know what to make of it. Are those the dates that they infiltrated/were granted access to those networks? Or the dates they added that messaging protocol to PRISM's parser? And who the hell cares about PalTalk? Its userbase is something like a dozen people.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Microsoft is a chat protocol?

Google?

[Recursion]

2. Yes, in both cases

I mean, Microsoft Messenger and Google Chat may call their protocols something else internally (XMPP in Google's case, no idea what Microsoft called their own protocol).

[Ian David]

3. As long as Chat Roulette isn't on there, I'm safe. Phew. n/t