ZDNet reports that in the last batch of Snowden documents, there may finally be some evidence that some TLA’s were doing some good. They spied on criminals too. Apparently one Snowden document boasts of how “criminals” can be found through a TLA program.
Using this program TLAs can identify cyber attackers. ZDNet says that malicious users causing a “distributed denial-of-service” or DDoS attack, where a group of people overload a server or network with a flood of network traffic can be traced and identified. The TLA also used its program to troll online criminal forums.
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Unfortunately, for law-abiding U.S. citizens, none of the Snowden documents to date have shown that the info collected on criminals was used to stop cyber attacks or was passed on to law enforcement to take action.
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