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Snowden's tools for hacking NSA not exactly high tech

posted onFebruary 10, 2014
by l33tdawg

Love him or loathe him, Edward Snowden has made a huge impact on the country, and the world, with the revelations that were leaked out about the National Security Agency and its tendency to spy on citizens both home and abroad.

To make that kind of impact, and to gain access to the documents in question, there must have been some pretty high level hacking going. Like, it must have been hard work, right?

Um... turns out, maybe not so much. In fact, the technology that Snowden used was both inexpensive, and commonly used, according to a report out from the New York Times this weekend. Snowden used software that is known as a “web crawler," which is designed to search, index and back up a website. It even allowed him to do his job at the same time, while the 1.7 million documents were being hacked.

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