Anonymous avenges NSA spying on citizens with strategic leak

The hacktivists strike back against alleged NSA domestic cyberspies by leaking agency documents, “including seriously important stuff like the US Department of Defense’s ‘Strategic Vision’ for controlling the internet.”

The 13 files were posted online in the wake of reports by the Washington Post and Guardian that the intelligence agency has been collecting Americans’ phone logs and, under a program dubbed PRISM, watching Internet users’ online activities.

The documents mostly date from around 2008, not long after PRISM supposedly emerged.

“One of the key things Anonymous has highlighted from the documents is the existence of an ‘intelligence-sharing network’ that shares data gleaned from PRISM with ‘intelligence partners’ around the world. Although we’re still in the process of combing through the documents, you can bet your last Bitcoin that ‘intelligence’ has been shared with British security services.”