The NSA has been secretly collecting data directly from Google and Yahoo's data centers by tapping into the links connecting the giant servers around the world, according to newly published documents leaked by Edward Snowden
The spy agency, with the aid of its UK counterpart, the GCHQ, operates a program codenamed MUSCULAR that can reportedly collect content and metadata directly from the privately owned fiber-optic cables that connect the companies' data centers, as first reported by The Washington Post on Wednesday
MUSCULAR appears to work separately from PRISM, the top-secret program that allows the NSA and the GCHQ to access data from nine tech giants through court orders. With MUSCULAR, the NSA and the GCHQ seem to have figured out a way to enter a back door into the private network of Google and Yahoo's data centers. Read more...
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