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Laura Poitras, a founding editor of The Intercept, won an Academy Award for her documentary āCitizenfour,ā an inside look at Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower
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The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use āphysical subversionā to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices
Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order ā and this has turned them into unwitting targets of the National Security Agency
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