GCHQ hired New Zealand firm for mass hack capabilities – Snowden leak

‘Electronic spy agency GCHQ paid a New Zealand firm to tap undersea internet cables in order to bulk-hack massive amounts of data, according to the latest Snowden leaks.
Documents obtained by the Intercept show UK spies got the NZ-based firm Endace to create data capture technology that scooped up information.
The CEO of Endace, which was founded in 2001 as an outgrowth of an academic project, was recently bought and then cut loose by the US company Emulex.’
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