How Did The NSA Become Big Brother?
It's no secret that the NSA has had a watchful eye on not only foreign nations but also American citizens. How did the NSA come to be the all-powerful, ...
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If the reports about the NSA's programs aren't being exaggerated, then our National Security Agency is the closest thing to Big Brother the world has ever seen. Even if the reports are being overstated by just half, the NSA's surveillance measures are still well beyond what we thought possible even 15 years ago. So, what happened? How did the NSA get so powerful? The NSA stems from agencies that we created in order to collect information about foreign nations during World War I and World War II. They collected communications intelligence: initially radio signals, and then as technology advanced, electronic intelligence. Then, in the Cold War, those two types of intelligence were combined into one new term: SIGINT, or signal intelligence. That is what the NSA works on collecting tod...
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If the reports about the NSA's programs aren't being exaggerated, then our National Security Agency is the closest thing to Big Brother the world has ever seen. Even if the reports are being overstated by just half, the NSA's surveillance measures are still well beyond what we thought possible even 15 years ago. So, what happened? How did the NSA get so powerful? The NSA stems from agencies that we created in order to collect information about foreign nations during World War I and World War II. They collected communications intelligence: initially radio signals, and then as technology advanced, electronic intelligence. Then, in the Cold War, those two types of intelligence were combined into one new term: SIGINT, or signal intelligence. That is what the NSA works on collecting tod...
