Snowden revelations on NSA strain US-China relations, says Beijing

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33. In the US it's done with Hardware

Before Snowden, Mark Klein tried to expose warrantless US surveillance

“The government painted me as a nobody, a technician who was merely speculating,” said Klein, who made his disclosures after he accepted a buyout and retired from AT&T in 2004. “Now we have an actual copy of a FISA court order. There it is in black and white. It’s undisputable. They can’t deny that.”

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1259836/snowden-mark-klein-tried-expose-warrantless-us-surveillance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A


I'm still not sure what he means by hacking into backbones, maybe it's just underwater sea cables with the USS Jimmy Carter.

Past submarines outfitted this way[citation needed] were used to tap undersea cables, to intercept communications of foreign countries. Intelligence experts speculate that the MMP may find use in similar missions as an underwater splicing chamber for fiber optic cables.[4][5][6][7]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uss_Jimmy_Carter