MUSCULAR


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MUSCULAR (DS-200B), located in the United Kingdom,[1] is the name of a surveillance program jointly operated by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that was revealed by documents released by Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.[2] GCHQ is the primary operator of the program.[1] GCHQ and the NSA have secretly broken into the main communications links that connect the data centers of Yahoo! and Google.[3] Substantive information about the program was made public at the end of October 2013.

  1. ^ a b Gellman, Barton; Soltani, Ashkan; Peterson, Andrea (November 4, 2013). "How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  2. ^ Gellman, Barton; Soltani, Ashkan (October 30, 2013). "NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference wapo1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).