XKeyscore Exposed: How NSA tracks All German Tor Users As ‘Extremists’ – 3 July 2014

A screenshot from http://www.torproject.org

The NSA has been revealed to mark and consider potential “extremists” all users of the internet anonymizer service Tor. Among those are hundreds of thousands of privacy concerned people like journalists, lawyers and rights activists.

READ MORE: NSA whistleblowers testify in Bundestag inquiry, disclose ‘totalitarian’ surveillance

Searching for encryption software like the Linux-based operating system Tails also places you on the NSA grid, as Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz revealed on the German site Tagesschau. The report is based on analysis of the source code of the software used by NSA’s electronic surveillance program XKeyscore.

Read the full story at: www.rt.com / link to original article

Advertisement