Archive for July, 2014

Report said secret code indicates NSA tracks users of privacy tools

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According to an analysis of never-before-seen code exposed by an unknown source, a NSA (National Security Agency)spying program is configured to pry into an array of privacy software used by reporters and dissidents. Published as part of investigation by two German broadcasters on Thursday, the code possesses tracking specifications for XKeyScore, a great NSA program that gathers and sorts intercepted information.

XKeyScore got exposed in documents by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor, yet some observers think the latest information, which supplement greater detail on how the agency monitors crowd working hard to prevent their privacy from being revealed online, may have not come from the documents he submitted to the reporters. Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the broadcasters, didn’t expose their source for the code, but declared in a report that the former NSA experts and employees are convinced that the similar code or the same code is still under using today.

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