The National Security Agency (NSA) and its PRISM spying program came under intense scrutiny last week when it was revealed that the company was spying on billions of data points owned by American citizens.
As Twitter users have a tendency to do they quickly jumped on the NSA PRISM discussion and in one case the results are hilarious.
Someone setup the account PRISM_NSA and they have been responding to tweets from around the web.
Here are some of the @PRISUM_NSA messages from the last few days:
We’ve improved extended Hadoop, a nifty piece of open source software that helps us spy on you. You’re welcome! https://t.co/Bkddd3popE
— PRISM US Gov (@PRISM_NSA) June 14, 2013
There’s one Internet company that has bravely resisted us, no matter the cost: @GoDaddy haha JK they’re total jerks like you’d expect
— PRISM US Gov (@PRISM_NSA) June 14, 2013
NSA: we are only gathering metadata. No personal info. IRS: because we already have it. FBI: shut up, idiot! CIA: really? @Zombieionism
— PRISM US Gov (@PRISM_NSA) June 14, 2013
The fake account has even cause some funny responses from Twitter users including @GTMCleod who tweets:
I don’t mind @PRISM_NSA knowing what websites I, um, visit. More concerned they know I’m only there a few minutes. At most.
— gary mcleod (@gtmcleod) June 14, 2013
And my personal favorite @PRISM_NSA tweet comes by way of a sad but funny response made to a statement by blogger Bill Seely:
@bill_seely awkward to tell you this, but that’s actually the one thing we stopped monitoring.
— PRISM US Gov (@PRISM_NSA) June 14, 2013
Check out the full @PRISM_NSA account and let us know what you think.
In the meantime here is a creepy fact, the fake @PRISM_NSA account launched around the same time as Twitter’s #FollowMe video platform. Coincidence? I think not!
Wow, this is funny in a weird kind of way.
Funny and strange at the same time.