The National Security Agency continues to make headlines with its wire-tapping program. Revelations have come to light that the NSA, in cooperation with their British counterparts, hacked into a Dutch sim-card manufacturer and stole encryption keys allowing them carte blanche to listen and record the conversations of unsuspecting European cell-phone users.
The revelation of NSA spying was released by Eric Snowden, the now infamous American whistle-blower who had access to top-secret documents as an employee of a consulting firm that worked for the agency.
President Obama already had to to do damage control in the past for the NSA’s actions. The President apologized to his international contemporariness in Germany and Brazil and promised to end the espionage program employed against the allied nations.
“There was no doubt that the spy agencies had violated Dutch law…” stated an attorney for Electronic Frontier Foundation, “and were in all probability violating laws in many other territories.”
