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Snowden Strikes Again - another breaking story
this must be a dupe, but I couldn't find it.
..How many "terrorists" are out there, that the NSA has to piggyback on cookies and find people to hack? Come on!
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/10/1261803/-Snowden-Strikes-Again-another-breaking-story
Snowden Strikes Again - another breaking story
by teacherken Dec 10, 2013 6:38pm PST
according to The Switch blog at The Washington Post, in a story just emailed as breaking news, NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking.
The story is co-authored by Barton Gellman, who is on contract with the Post and has previously written stories using the material he was given by Snowden.
The opening two grafs:
according to The Switch blog at The Washington Post, in a story just emailed as breaking news, NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking.
The story is co-authored by Barton Gellman, who is on contract with the Post and has previously written stories using the material he was given by Snowden.
The opening two grafs:
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
The agency's internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking operations.
-Please keep reading.
According to the documents, the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, are using the small tracking files or "cookies" that advertising networks place on computers to identify people browsing the Internet. The intelligence agencies have found particular use for a part of a Google-specific tracking mechanism known as the “PREF” cookie. These cookies typically don't contain personal information, such as someone's name or e-mail address, but they do contain numeric codes that enable Web sites to uniquely identify a person's browser.
The story is co-authored by Barton Gellman, who is on contract with the Post and has previously written stories using the material he was given by Snowden.
The opening two grafs:
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
The agency's internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking operations.
-Please keep reading.
According to the documents, the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, are using the small tracking files or "cookies" that advertising networks place on computers to identify people browsing the Internet. The intelligence agencies have found particular use for a part of a Google-specific tracking mechanism known as the “PREF” cookie. These cookies typically don't contain personal information, such as someone's name or e-mail address, but they do contain numeric codes that enable Web sites to uniquely identify a person's browser.
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