NSA’s XKeyscore

The NSA has their own version of Google. It collects, supposedly, way more information than the search giant. The NSA system pulls in countless people’s Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among other sources, for processing. Of course it’s there in the name of Freedom and Merica!

The system indexes all sorts of information, not just text, but pictures and voice as well. Remember my articles about the Equation Group that installed trojans on hard drives at the factory? Or how the NSA and GCHQ hacked Gemalto to access the keys to every SIM card to decrypt every phone?

From reading this article, it’s possible for NSA analysts to perform some really deep background searches on you, but of course there are administrative access controls to prevent them from doing so… Which means they are told not to, but that doesn’t stop their ability to.

Just thought you should know… :)

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