National Security Agency
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The National Security Agency is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the director of national intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monit
NSA headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland, c. 1986
Black Chamber cryptanalytic work sheet for solving Japanese diplomatic cipher, 1919
Protesters against NSA data mining in Berlin wearing Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden masks
Intercepted packages are opened carefully by NSA employees.
Edward Snowden
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Edward Joseph Snowden is an American whistleblower who, as a National Security Agency intelligence contractor, disclosed classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
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…leaders and the agency's participation in economic espionage. In 2013, the NSA had many of its secret surveillance programs revealed to the public by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor. According to the leaked documents, the NSA intercepts and stores the communications of over a billion people worldwide…
Snowden in 2013
Slide from an NSA presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation" from its MUSCULAR program; the sketch shows where the "Public Internet" meets the internal "Google Cloud" where user data resides.
PRISM: a clandestine surveillance program under which the NSA collects user data from companies including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and YouTube
Hong Kong rally to support Snowden, June 15, 2013