Edward Snowden revealed a new leak for the very sophisticated and dangerous system of the National Security Agency NSA . The system is ...
Edward Snowden revealed a new leak for the very sophisticated and dangerous system of the National Security Agency NSA. The system is a program for automatic electronic war on strange countries.
It is called MonsterMind, a program that search for traffic patterns of a potential electronic attacks coming from foreign countries, according to Snowden.
MonsterMind can prevent this attack automatically from entering the United States, and then reply to the attackers, according to Wired the closest newspaper to Snowden.
Snowden, when he was working at the NSA, there was a concern then that MonsterMind can lead to a wrong attack. Because the attacks coming from the outside of the United States can be a fake. For example, it can be offensive from China, but the software can consider these attacks from Russia. It will then ( The software) launch counter-attacks on Russia. This may lead to disaster ...
Snowden saif also MonsterMind penetrates the privacy of the American society, because the program up to nearly all communications coming into the United States in order to work (the interception of traffic flows), and this means a violation of law, seizure of private communications without a warrant, without a potential reason or even suspicion of a certain thing.
The program has raised considerable criticism in the American society for the National Security Agency and programs that violate their privacy.
While the NSA rejected all comment about MonsterMind, but called for Snowden to return to the United States from Russia to discuss its activities, according to talks with the Justice Department, said the National Security Agency in a statement that "he should return to the United States to face the charges against him."
As stated in the same newspaper that the NSA's hackers have shut down Internet service in Syria for a short period in 2012 when trying to install malicious programs and tapped into one of the core routers of the main internet service (ISP), Syria.
The NSA hackers were trying to access emails and online communications in Syria, but the router was destroyed in the process of trying to compromise it. Snowden said that the National Security Agency was concerned that Syria will discover it, but apparently they did not discover it.
