New evelation comes as NSA also cops to acknowledging that some of its analysts have snooped on emails of ex-lovers. August 25, 2013 9:44 AM PDT Edward Snowden By now, this shouldn't be a suprise. The National Security Agency spied on the internal video conferencing system used by United Nations officials by decrypting it last year, according to German magazine Der Spiegel. The disclosure came from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who has provided a trove of materials to Britains' The Guardian newspaper about heretofore secret details of the NSA's surveillance program. The De Spiegel story says that the encryption cracking took place in the summer of 2012. In our spy-versus-spy world, one other choice nugget came to public notice: The documents detail the NSA discovered that the Chinese were also attempting to break into UN communications at the same time. Apropos, a couple of days earlier came a separate disclosure that NSA analysts have occasionally read the emails of former lovers.
New evelation comes as NSA also cops to acknowledging that some of its analysts have snooped on emails of ex-lovers.
Edward Snowden
By now, this shouldn't be a suprise. The National Security Agency spied on the internal video conferencing system used by United Nations officials by decrypting it last year, according to German magazine Der Spiegel.
The disclosure came from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who has provided a trove of materials to Britains' The Guardian newspaper about heretofore secret details of the NSA's surveillance program. The De Spiegel story says that the encryption cracking took place in the summer of 2012. In our spy-versus-spy world, one other choice nugget came to public notice: The documents detail the NSA discovered that the Chinese were also attempting to break into UN communications at the same time.
Apropos, a couple of days earlier came a separate disclosure that NSA analysts have occasionally read the emails of former lovers.
