Satellite dishes are seen at GCHQ's outpost at Bude, close to where trans-Atlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest England June 23, 2013.(Reuters / Kieran Doherty)
New Evidence Surfaces That NSA And GHCQ Tapped Into Google And Yahoo Private Networks -- The Verge
After The Washington Post reported last week that the NSA was tapping into private networks at Google and Yahoo, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wasted no time in denying the allegations. Clapper said the report had "misstated facts, mischaracterized NSA’s activities, and drawn erroneous inferences about those operations." Today, the Post struck back with an even more detailed look at the NSA's network-tapping capabilities, including proprietary details that all but prove the agency was pulling data from the company's private lines.
The new documents show data held by the NSA in formats that are otherwise only found on Google and Yahoo's private network — essentially a smoking gun for the previously alleged network-tapping. In Google's case, it comes from a proprietary network protocol known as a "remote procedure call" that company servers use to verify a server's identity.
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Update #1: How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data -- Washington Post
Update #2: GCHQ intercepts Google, Yahoo cloud data hosted in Britain, feeds info to NSA -- RT
My Comment: NSA officials are still denying that such spying is happening .... interestingly .... Google is now finding itself in the position of disagreeing with the NSA position.
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