[credit: Shrank, The Independent]
Wackydoodle sez: Only exceeded mit der Englisher schnüffel!
Snowdenfall is continuing unabated. Now we learn Ed was industrious indeed. He convinced co-workers to give him their passwords so he could obtain even more embarrassing information about the paranoia that rules Washington. He persuaded 20 to 25 coworkers at the secret Hawaiian NSA base to give him access to classified information. Some of those cooperatives have been removed from their assignments. This development indicates the lax security NSA tolerated within its walls. Snowden's leaks are without doubt the worse breach of the secret agency's classified files in its sixty-one year history. This week the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ publicly testified before a parliamentary committee about its operations. Nothing new was revealed in the typically polite questioning, but it was clear British security chiefs were livid about the effects of Snowdenfall. The GCHQ head predictably said, "Al Qaeda is lapping this up." Both GCHQ and NSA have been accused of undermining encryption code used by commercial internet companies like Google. GCHQ uses a program named "Tempora" which stores intercepted internet content for up to three days and metadata for up to thirty.