How the NSA is infiltrating private networks
The NSA, working with its British
counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly
taps into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest
Internet companies by overall data traffic. The operation intercepts
information flowing between the enormous data centers that those
companies maintain around the world. In general, Google and Yahoo use
privately owned or leased lines to synchronize their data centers. This
graphic shows how the NSA and GCHQ break into those internal networks,
using Google’s as an example. Less is known about Yahoo’s networks, but
the NSA operations are thought to be similar.
SOURCE: Staff reports; Google, www.google.com/about/datacenters.
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