NSA Used Retro Tactics to Spy on Yahoo, Google

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http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/f_dB6ixCI1nwYeW8sI9IYg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/NSA_Used_Retro_Tactics_to-b64ea6840817042edea3d7db68b683d8 (http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-used-retro-tactics-spy-yahoo-google-161806143.html)Last month we learned that the NSA, which wreaked havoc for Obama’s PR team by allegedly snooping on every person with a cell phone anywhere, also managed to tap into tech fortresses Google and Yahoo.-That's a bit of a surprising development considering the agency had front-end access to their data via the secretive Prism spying program. The NSA, which had no problem gaining access to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s personal phone, was able to infiltrate the companies by bypassing their high security data centers. According to a report in The New York Times, the spy agency targeted fiber-optic cable providers that connect data centers globally, rather than hacking into Google or Yahoo directly.



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