Estonia in 2007, Georgia in 2008 and Kyrgyzstan in 2009 were targets of massive denial-of-service attacks organized by FAPSI, the Russian Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (the Russian national security agency) through a various proxies that gave FAPSI plausible deniability.

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And you can bet the National Security Agency is spending billions on technology to comb through the torrents of private video that are already coursing across the public Web.

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Echelon's existence was only recently confirmed by the US Government through the declassification of secret documents of the US National Security Agency (NSA).

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