Edward Snowden
By now, this shouldn't be a surprise. The National
Security Agency spied on the internal videoconferencing
system used by United Nations officials by decrypting it
last year, according to German magazine
Der Spiegel.
The disclosure came from documents leaked by Edward
Snowden, the former NSA contractor who has provided a trove
of materials to Britain's The Guardian newspaper about
heretofore secret details of the NSA's surveillance program.
The Spiegel story says that the encryption cracking took
place in the summer of 2012. In our spy-versus-spy world,
one other choice nugget came to public notice: The documents
detail that the NSA discovered that the Chinese were also
attempting to break into UN communications at the same time.
Meanwhile, a couple of days earlier came a
separate disclosure that NSA analysts have occasionally
read the e-mails of former lovers.
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