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Title: NSA's Sentry Eagle Program Placed Spies in Private Companies
Author: LaminatorX
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 03:55:00 -0400
Link: http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/20/2136213&from=rss
gewg_ writes:
El Reg reports[1]:
The National Security Agency (NSA) has, since 2004, sent spies into private
companies in a bid to compromise networks from within, according to documents
leaked by Edward Snowden.
Agents sent in by the NSA targeted global communications firms under a highly
classified 'core secrets' program dubbed Sentry Eagle, previously known only
to a handful of officials.
The documents[2][1] published by Snowden mouthpiece The Intercept indicate
operatives in the core secrets program worked in concert with companies to
weaken encryption and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to break security
mechanisms.
Draft documents published online detailing Sentry Eagle explain that the
program used the "full capabilities" of signals intelligence (SIGINT),
computer exploitation, defence and network warfare to ensure the protection
of US cyberspace.
The document listed facts ranging from unclassified to top secret
necessitating "extraordinary protection", and demonstrated the chasm between
unclassified information the NSA saw fit for public consumption and that
appearing at times too sensitive for the eyes of allies.
[1] All content is behind scripts.
Read more of this story[3] at SoylentNews.
Links:
[1]: http://m.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/14/nsa_sentry_eagle_placed_spies_in_private_companies/#content (link)
[2]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/10/10/national-initiative-protection-program-sentry-eagle/# (link)
[3]: http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/20/2136213&from=rss (link)
Author: LaminatorX
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 03:55:00 -0400
Link: http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/20/2136213&from=rss
gewg_ writes:
El Reg reports[1]:
The National Security Agency (NSA) has, since 2004, sent spies into private
companies in a bid to compromise networks from within, according to documents
leaked by Edward Snowden.
Agents sent in by the NSA targeted global communications firms under a highly
classified 'core secrets' program dubbed Sentry Eagle, previously known only
to a handful of officials.
The documents[2][1] published by Snowden mouthpiece The Intercept indicate
operatives in the core secrets program worked in concert with companies to
weaken encryption and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to break security
mechanisms.
Draft documents published online detailing Sentry Eagle explain that the
program used the "full capabilities" of signals intelligence (SIGINT),
computer exploitation, defence and network warfare to ensure the protection
of US cyberspace.
The document listed facts ranging from unclassified to top secret
necessitating "extraordinary protection", and demonstrated the chasm between
unclassified information the NSA saw fit for public consumption and that
appearing at times too sensitive for the eyes of allies.
[1] All content is behind scripts.
Read more of this story[3] at SoylentNews.
Links:
[1]: http://m.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/14/nsa_sentry_eagle_placed_spies_in_private_companies/#content (link)
[2]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/10/10/national-initiative-protection-program-sentry-eagle/# (link)
[3]: http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/20/2136213&from=rss (link)
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