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To: Brumar89 who wrote (749367)	10/30/2013 10:56:07 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1574666

I think it is now becoming abundantly clear that Obama and the NSA are engaging in Nazi/Stasi Dictatorship tactics to un-Constitutionally surveil American citizens. It's time to reform and restrain the NSA and put Obama out of business. He's becoming increasingly unaccountable. I will be voting against him and the Democrats in the next election. ----------- High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. ft.com Google ‘outraged’ by latest surveillance claimsBy Richard Waters in San Francisco and Geoff Dyer in Washington Google on Wednesday declared that it was “outraged” by apparent US government attempts to siphon information about millions of its users from its network, as the latest revelations in the internet surveillance scandal left it struggling to reassure its global users about the security of their personal information. The strong denunciation followed a report by the Washington Post that the National Security Agency had sought to take information wholesale from Google by tapping into a weak point in its network architecture. The claims, which included the accusation that Yahoohad also been targeted in the network break-in, were the latest to be based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Among them was one with a rough sketch illustrating how to break into the Google network, including an annotation by the author showing a smiley face to celebrate the apparently successful intrusion. Google dropped its previously restrained disavowal of involvement in the NSA’s surveillance efforts as it sought to distance itself from the increasingly damaging disclosures. “We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fibre networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform,” David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, said in a statement. Asked about the latest claims at an event in Washington, General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, issued a hasty denial. “I can tell you factually we do not have access to Google servers, Yahoo servers,” he said. “We go through a court order.” The first disclosures about the NSA’s internet surveillance, made five months ago, included allegations that Google and other internet companies had given the agency open access to their servers. The companies strongly denied those claims, instead saying that they only handed over information about users when ordered by a US court. The latest revelations, by contrast, pointed to joint efforts by the US agency and the UK’s GCHQ to intercept information on the networks that the internet companies use to pass data internally between their various data centres. Much of the communication is on private lines owned by the company, though some also passes over public networks. Google said it had stepped up the encryption of data travelling between its data centres. In a statement, the NSA stopped short of addressing the claims directly, instead limiting its comments to whether it tapped information about US users as well as those in other countries. “NSA is a foreign intelligence agency. And we’re focused on discovering and developing intelligence about valid foreign intelligence targets only,” it said. The new revelations could fuel support in Congress for new proposals to rein in the NSA’s surveillance activities on American citizens.