Well, this is embarrassing: Edward Snowden stole NSA documents using widely available software that “scraped” the agency’s computer networks, the New York Times reports. “We do not believe this was an individual sitting at a machine and downloading this much material in sequence,” a top intelligence official said. The software…
In yet another disclosure from Edward Snowdens pile of leaked NSA documents, The Washington Post has revealed that the US surveillance agency may be using Googles advertising cookies to track and pinpoint targets for government hacking and location-tracking. According to Snowdens leaked presentation slides, both the NSA and the British equivalent, the GCHQ, are using a Google-specific […]
Since the leaks began, government officials have speculated about various NSA documents that former contractor Edward Snowden might have accessed. Today, that speculation reached a fever pitch, as unnamed officials told Reuters they now believe Snowden may have accessed the so-called doomsday cache, which includes the names of US and allied intelligence personnel. …
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