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<\/p>\nHackers affiliated with the Anonymous collective have leaked a US Department of Defense memo relating to the PRISM program, revealing that the National Security Agency has secretly gathered intelligence on millions of Americans for years.<\/p>\n
\n The hacktivists, who have long sought complete transparency
\n online and elsewhere, published a total of thirteen documents,
\n one of which outlines the US government\u2019s \u201cNetOps Strategic
\n Vision\u201d for monitoring the Internet.
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\n The documents are mostly pulled from 2008, just after when the
\n government reportedly began using PRISM to mine servers at
\n technology companies including Microsoft and Yahoo. An NSA
\n slideshow published Thursday by the Guardian and the Washington
\n Post reveals the intelligence community first gained access to
\n Google in January of 2009 and Facebook in June of the same year.
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\n \u201cNetOps will transform along with the Global Information Grid
\n to dynamically support new warfighting, intelligence, and
\n business processes and enable users to access and share trusted
\n information in a timely manner,\u201d<\/i> one document states.
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\n \u201cThe future Global Information Grid will result in a richer
\n Net-Centric information environment comprised of shared services
\n and capabilities based on advanced technologies.”\u00a0<\/i>\n <\/p>\n
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\u201cIt will be heavily reliant on end-to-end virtual networks to
\n interconnect anyone, anywhere, at any time with any type of
\n information through voice, video, images, or text. It will also
\n be faced with greater security threats that NetOps must help
\n address.\u201d<\/i>
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\n Much of the leak contains vague language that outlines the
\n desired goals of the \u201cNetOps Vision,\u201d not details on how
\n surveillance is conducted or the individuals or groups targeted
\n by the NSA. At least a section of Friday\u2019s information dump was
\n previously made available by the government, according to
\n technology news site ZD Net, which found the data on
\n Web.Archive.org.
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\n Anonymous, however, reminded readers to share the documents
\n before the figurative \u201cthey\u201d try to make them disappear.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnonymous has obtained some documents that \u2018they\u2019 do not want
\n you to see, and much to \u2018their\u2019 chagrin, we have found them, and
\n are giving them to you,\u201d<\/i> the poster writes. \u201cThis is
\n happening in over 35 countries and done in cooperation with
\n private businesses, and intelligence partners worldwide. We bring
\n this to you so that you know just how little rights you
\n have.\u201d<\/i>
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