The German magazine Der Spiegel says the U.S. National
Security Agency secretly monitored the U.N.’s internal video conferencing
system by decrypting it last year.
The weekly said Sunday that documents it obtained from
American leaker Edward Snowden show the NSA decoded the system at the U.N.’s
headquarters in New York last summer.
Quoting leaked NSA documents, the article said the
decryption “dramatically increased the data from video phone conferences and
the ability to decode the data traffic.”
In three weeks, Der Spiegel said, the NSA increased the
number of decrypted communications at the U.N. from 12 to 458.
Snowden’s leaks have exposed details of the United States’
global surveillance apparatus, sparking an international debate over the limits
of American spying.
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