SMS text messaging - a gold mine for exploitation says E. Snowden
Only a few hours before President Barack Obama is expected to announce changes regarding the NSA surveillance program, a new documents by Snowden were published that show once again the enormous magnitude of the espionage activities of the U.S. National Security Agency. The documents revealed that the NSA collects hundreds of millions of text messages every day. Research on this issue was conducted by the British newspaper The Guardian, along with Channel 4 , and it was revealed that the NSA works closely with the British spy agency, GCHQ. Edward Snowden served these key documents to the media as usual. The documents reveal that the NSA collects nearly 200 million text messages every day, from around the world. Furthermore, the data - collected from the messages - in some cases is used for further extraction of data such as location, contacts list, and even financial details. The Guardian mentions one special program, titled "Dishfire" which task is to collect ...