National Security Agency is American government intelligence agency which monitors and analyses the communication in the country but also abroad. It is tasked with the protection of state communications and government infrastructure from similar organizations in the world.
Officially it was founded in 1952, as a part of ministry of defense. The creation of NSA was approved in the letter of American president Harry Truman in 1952. NSA is an important component of Intelligence service of United States which is controlled by the CIA director.
Agency also contracts jobs with the private sector and the field of research and equipment, being that it possesses advanced technologies of cryptography and analysis, communication hardware and software, and other. How much is NSA powerful, how far it fingers can reach and how much can it make your life bitter with its espionage activities?
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For NSA is allowed to collect info on people three degrees of separation from suspects. From a suspect with 260 phone contacts, 4.569.760.000 other people could be monitored.
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They use metadata to get around privacy laws, rather than monitoring conversations. Numbers called and received, call duration and the nearest cell tower are all logged.
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Prism is a major electronic spying program using existing information from social sites. In six months 18.000 facebook accounts were “affected”.
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NSA have wiretapped all overseas communication in and out of the US. The data-mining of calls was implemented by Bush after 9/11.
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NSA can turn your phone and computer´s camera and microphone on remotely: a “rowing bug”. They can even listen in when the phone is turned off.
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They work closely with companies like Google, incorporating code into android phones. This means around 75 percent of smartphones solo in the world have NSA code.
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They spent 254.9 million dollar cracking e-mail encryption for millions of people. They also worked to insert vulnerabilities into encryption system and influenced companies´ product design to gain access.
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The treasury department´s “swift” monitors financial transactions of suspects and foreign nationals. Snowden revealed that this has been expanded to include U.S. citizens.
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The NSA also engaged in MITM, or “Man-In-The-Middle” attacks. Posing as sites such as Google, they harvested information before sending it onto the real website.
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The NSA has also spied on love interests. They stated the “loveint” happens very rarely and is strictly punished. The NSA itself has in 1 year violated privacy laws on 3.000 occasions.
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