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How the NSA is infiltrating private networks
By Barton Gellman, Todd Lindeman and Ashkan Soltani, Published: Oct. 30, 2013
The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by overall data traffic. The operation intercepts information flowing between the enormous data centers that those companies maintain around the world. In general, Google and Yahoo use privately owned or leased lines to synchronize their data centers. This graphic shows how the NSA and GCHQ break into those internal networks, using Googleβs as an example. Less is known about Yahooβs networks, but the NSA operations are thought to be similar.
![](http://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/10/30/National-Security/Graphics/NSA_private_Google_1030a.jpg)
SOURCE: Staff reports; Google, www.google.com/about/datacenters.
You don't need to worry if all you have to hide are just your credit card and bank account passwords..not to mention facebook, adult match making etc.
You don't need to worry if all you have to hide are just your credit card and bank account passwords..not to mention facebook, adult match making etc.
I trust the government more than google. One has checks, the other does not.
You don't need to worry if all you have to hide are just your credit card and bank account passwords..not to mention facebook, adult match making etc.
I trust the government more than google. One has checks, the other does not.
What do you mean by checks? Checks on us, the ordinary people?