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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say

30 October 2013

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"The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.

The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the data links is a project called MUSCULAR, operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters . From undisclosed interception points, the NSA and the GCHQ are copying entire data flows across fiber-optic cables that carry information among the data centers of the Silicon Valley giants."

See the full article: NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say (Washington Post, link)

And: NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say (Washington Post, link)

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