Der Spiegel and the Intercept collaboratively publish documents that show how the NSA and GCHQ planned to map and penetrate global networks. According to the Intercept, "Treasure Map is a vast NSA campaign to map the global internet. The program doesn’t just seek to chart data flows in large traffic channels, such as telecommunications cables. Rather, it seeks to identify and locate every single device that is connected to the internet somewhere in the world—every smartphone, tablet, and computer—'anywhere, all the time,' according to NSA documents." The report from Der Spiegel emphasizes that Five Eyes agencies claim to have access to Deutsche Telekom AG and Netcologne, and that the documents could even show "that the NSA and its partner agencies are perhaps not only able to monitor the networks of these companies and the data that travels through them, but also the end devices of their customers."
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Sunday, September 14, 2014 (All day)
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