Monday, August 12, 2013

NSA analysts earned 'skilz' points by training for XKeyscore surveillance, says new report


In Europe, Germany has been a nexus of debate over American surveillance: it's allegedly both one of the most-watched countries in western Europe and a close partner of the NSA. It's said to be central to the XKeyscore information-gathering program — and, according to new documents reviewed by Der Spiegel , its analysts have the maddest skilz in the business.


The series of NSA documents, which have not been published, paint a more detailed picture of the XKeyscore program that was revealed in recent weeks. They describe training at the European Cryptologic Center (ECC), a site in the state of Hesse that reportedly hosted the XKeyscore surveillance system and played a major part in other NSA operations. Documents show that XKeyscore was...


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