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Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet:

How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? Ref. Source 5

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NSA bulk collection ensnares under 30 percent of phone records daily - report:

The NSA has spent years collecting metadata - which includes the numbers dialed, number of calls received, time of call, duration of the call, and other information - from landline phones. Yet the agency has struggled to maintain pace with the explosion in cell phone usage, officials said. Ref. Source 6

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NSA actions pose 'direct threat to journalism' leading watchdog warns:

Agency's dragnet of communications data threatens to destroy the confidence between reporter and source on which most investigations depend, Committee to Protect Journalists said Ref. Source 2

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NSA: Co-worker provided digital key to Snowden

Unnamed civilian employee who worked with Snowden resigned last month. Ref. Source 3

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The U.S. Government has warned airlines to pay particular attention to the possibility of terrorists attempting to hide explosives in shoes.

The officials stressed there is no specific threat or known plot.

Intelligence collected by the United States and other countries has indicated terror groups have been working on new shoe-bomb designs, the sources said. Ref. CNN

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NSA 'hijack' criminal botnets for spyware

While US law enforcement agencies have long tried to stamp out networks of compromised computers used by cyber criminals, the National Security Agency has been hijacking the so-called botnets as a resource for spying. Ref. Source 4

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President Obama, NSA recording '100 percent' of another country's phone calls:

A secret spy program developed by the National Security Agency and reported publically for the first time on Tuesday has given the United States the ability to digitally record the contents of each and every phone call occurring across entire nations. Ref. Source 3

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How Much Would It Cost To Store All US Phone Calls Made In A Year?:

These estimates show only $27M in capital cost, and $2M in electricity and take less than 5,000 square feet of space to store and process all US phonecalls made in a year. Ref. Source 7