Tools NSA spying

The German magazine Der Spiegel published recently that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) spy emails of Felipe Calderon and other members of his cabinet in May 2010, in addition to the post of the current president Enrique Peña Nieto, according to the new leaked documents by former CIA collaborator, Edward Snowden.

According to the report, the so-called "operation Flatliquid managed to get access to the servers of Presidency that contained communications diplomatic, economic and security, who gave an overview of the internal political system and the stability of the country.

This espionage against Mexico was led by the operations unit of access to the measure (TAO by its acronym in english) and supervised from the offices of the National Security Agency in Texas and from the headquarters of the United States embassy in Mexico City.

According to the information collected by Snowden and revealed by TV Globo on 1 September this year, the intelligence unit digital SAT, belonging to the NSA, was responsible for recording the conversations of Enrique Peña Nieto, where they used the TowerQFD and Mainway systems, a database that stores metadata of telephone calls to collect the information exchanged with your computer through their cell phones.
According to the daily Le Monde, citizens throughout the world are being spied on by the NSA via the Prism program, that is to scan and collect data from the profiles and messages on social networks with the upstream technical, which you access by means of fiber cable or by the infrastructure as the information is transmitted.

According to a note published by CNN, was also used the XKeyscore tool, which was developed by the NSA to extract information from emails and text messaging services. This program covers all the digital pages and emails that operate through a large Linux cluster with close to 700 servers distributed around the world. Works to investigate by name, phone number, IP address, or even the language in which the activity is performed on the Internet.

XKeyscore has the ability to detect unusual actions, such as a user to perform a search in a little used language in a given region or the search for potential targets for an attack.

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