New reporting by the Guardian reveals an NSA program called XKeyscore gives the agency near limitless access to e-mails, Web browser history, social media activity and more. The program contains few checks to ensure the surveillance complies with US law.
Put the director of the National Security Agency on a stage in front of a large group of hackers and the results are easily predictable. "You lied to Congress, why should we believe you?" heckles one audience member. "Read the Constitution!" shouts another. "I have read it," Keith Alexander replies, adding with a smile, "You should read it." The audience applauds.
Alexander was speaking at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. With the top button of his shirt unbuttoned, he appeared to be presenting a more friendly and less sinister image of the NSA to the very people the agency desperately needs on its side.
But just hours before taking the stage in Las Vegas, London's Guardiannewspaper published new information from former NSA contracter Edward Snowden on another surveillance program called XKeyscore -- a program that makes thepreviously revealed programs PRISM and Tempora look trivial. The agency documents say XKeyscore is its "widest reaching" system capable of mining intelligence from the Internet....[...]
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