{"id":140745,"date":"2014-10-13T18:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=140745"},"modified":"2014-10-13T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:48:41","slug":"nsa-agents-may-infiltrated-global-communications-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-agents-may-infiltrated-global-communications-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA agents may have infiltrated the global communications industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked Snowden documents published by Laura Poitras and Peter Maass in The Intercept describe the NSA&#8217;s SENTRY EAGLE program describe six programs aimed at weakening the capacity of people all over the world to communicate in private.<span id=\"more-337524\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Part of the SENTRY EAGLE effort involves infiltrating &#8220;commercial entities&#8221; with undercover agents &#8212; though it&#8217;s not clear whether these are US or foreign companies. If the NSA has put secret operatives into foreign companies &#8212; for example, cloud companies in the EU &#8212; this could change the calculus of non-US businesses that have moved their data-centers and operations away from American-based firms whom they fear to be secretly in cahoots with the NSA, a fear that was magnified by the revelation that RSA had secretly taken $10M from the NSA to fatally weaken its products.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-140746\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-5.11.39-PM-article-display-b1.jpg\" alt=\"Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-5.11.39-PM-article-display-b1\" width=\"540\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-5.11.39-PM-article-display-b1.jpg 540w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-5.11.39-PM-article-display-b1-75x56.jpg 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-5.11.39-PM-article-display-b1-134x100.jpg 134w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-5.11.39-PM-article-display-b1-383x287.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/10\/12\/nsa-agents-may-have-infiltrate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked Snowden documents published by Laura Poitras and Peter Maass in The Intercept describe the NSA&#8217;s SENTRY EAGLE program describe six programs aimed at weakening the capacity of people all over the world to communicate in private. Part of the SENTRY EAGLE effort involves infiltrating &#8220;commercial entities&#8221; with undercover agents &#8212; though it&#8217;s not clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}