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Leaked Slide Shows NSA Celebrated Victory Over Google's Security With A Smiley Face
Source: Business Insider
Leaked Slide Shows NSA Celebrated Victory Over Google's Security With A Smiley Face
PAUL SZOLDRA AND MICHAEL KELLEY OCT. 30, 2013, 1:00 PM
A new report from Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani of The Washington Post has lifted the veil on a top-secret NSA program that's sucking up vast swaths of data from Yahoo and Google servers overseas.
The first thing that stands out is the drawing accompanying the report.
From a presentation leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the slide shows a seemingly hand-drawn sketch showing how Google attempts to encrypt their data and how the NSA circumvents it.
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PAUL SZOLDRA AND MICHAEL KELLEY OCT. 30, 2013, 1:00 PM
A new report from Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani of The Washington Post has lifted the veil on a top-secret NSA program that's sucking up vast swaths of data from Yahoo and Google servers overseas.
The first thing that stands out is the drawing accompanying the report.
From a presentation leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the slide shows a seemingly hand-drawn sketch showing how Google attempts to encrypt their data and how the NSA circumvents it.
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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-nsa-slide-of-google-cloud-2013-10
See also: NSA sketches explain user data: can you do better? (The Guardian)
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