Buried in among all the NSA leaks, which have shown direct economic and private espionage, was the news about an operation code-named Flying Pig reports Techye..

The British GCHQ network exploitation team developed Flying Pig because there was a rise in SSL encryption by email providers like Yahoo, Google, and Hotmail.

The Flying Pig system appears to allow it to identify information related to use of the anonymity browser Tor and also allows spies to collect information about specific SSL encryption certificates.

It is starting to show how far the NSA and GCHQ are going in their hacking antics and how the tech companies aren't always "willing participants" in the NSA's efforts.

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