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Example from the phone records spying program that was revealed last night by "the guardian" the program that has the government storing records of past phone calls allowing intelligence to go back to that data and mine through it at a later date. more on the latest details of that program in a little bit. on the computer spying, the story breaking tonight, "the guardian" and the "washington post" reporting the national security agency and fbi are tapping directly into the central servers of nine different u.s. internet companies. big big names in american computing, google and yahoo! and micr...

More on the latest details of that program in a little bit. on the computer spying, the story breaking tonight, "the guardian" and the "washington post" reporting the national security agency and fbi are tapping directly into the central servers of nine different u.s. internet companies. big big names in american computing, google and yahoo! and microsoft, who was apparently first in, in the program. facebook and aol, skype and youtube and apple and something called paltalk. i was not previously familiar with it. in this middle east and carries a lot of internet traffic in syria and particular...

And to what extent do we have similar information about china or russia or other theoretical adversaries? >> well, we know that we're vulnerable to computer spying and sabotage because it's happened. we know that there are gangs of programmers who are either employed by or indirectly supported by the chinese government, who have stolen information about the joint strike fighters, stealth technology, who have charted our electrical grid coordinates on the internet. we know, for instance, about the worm that was launched to destroy the centrifuges enrichi enriching uranium in iran called stuxnet...

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