Federated Media Leaderboard ad at the top Google search box. Blog Features Podcasts Video Forums • Submit a link Subhead America's National Security Agency gathers unfathomable mountains of Internet communications from fiber optic taps and other means, but it says it only retains and searches the communications of "targeted" individuals who've done something suspicious. Guess what? If you read Boing Boing, you've been targeted. Cory Doctorow digs into Xkeyscore and the NSA's deep packet inspection rules. Main Image The copy In a shocking story on the German site Tagesschau ( Google translate ), Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz report on the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "target" for surveillance. Since the start of the Snowden story in 2013, the NSA has stressed that while it may intercept nearly every Internet use...