WaPo (Oct 30) - "#NSA infiltrates [private] links [between] Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, #Snowden documents say": http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html
> According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSA’s acquisitions > directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google > internal networks to data warehouses at the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters. > In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and > sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from “metadata,” which would > indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, > audio and video. > > The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the data links is a project called > MUSCULAR, operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, GCHQ. From > undisclosed interception points, the NSA and GCHQ are copying entire data > flows across fiber-optic cables that carry information between the data > centers of the Silicon Valley giants. gf -- Gregory Foster || [email protected] @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/
