Thursday, October 31, 2013

NSA Director Alexander Denies Reports That The NSA Infiltrated Google To Yahoo Servers



Alexander Denies NSA Infiltrated Google to Yahoo Servers -- Bloomberg

The U.S. National Security Agency hasn’t infiltrated the servers of Internet companies including Google Inc. (GOOG) and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), said General Keith Alexander, the agency’s director.

Google, Yahoo and other Internet companies are compelled by court orders to provide the government data for counterterrorism operations and it’s illegal for the NSA to tap directly into their servers, Alexander said at a Bloomberg Government cybersecurity conference in Washington today.

“NSA does collect information on terrorists and our national intelligence priorities but we are not authorized to go into a U.S. company’s servers and take data,” Alexander said.

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