National Security Agency
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The National Security Agency (NSA) is part of the US government and is responsible for the global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for domestic and foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, and specializes in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The agency is also tasked with protecting U.S. communications networks and information systems. NSA was started in 1952, and its main office is in Maryland.
Its stated goal is to protect the US people by
- Worldwide "earsdropping," secretly listening to what people are saying in other countries. It monitors, collects, decodes, translates and analyses information and data. That is known as signals intelligence (SIGINT).
- Protecting the US from eavesdropping and SIGINT spying by foreign governments and agencies, called "penetration and network warfare."[9][10] The agency does so by clandestine (secret) means,[11] such as bugging electronic systems,[12] and sabotaging their computer networks with viral software.[13][14]
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