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Snowden used simple technology to mine NSA computer networks

Posted on February 10, 2014 by pogowasright.org

Rory Carroll reports:

The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to plunder the agency’s networks, it has been reported, raising further questions about why he was not detected.

Intelligence officials investigating the former contractor, who leaked thousands of documents to media outlets including the Guardian last year, determined that he used web crawler software designed to search, index and back up websites to “scrape” highly classified files, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

Read more on The Guardian.

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