Intelligence officials looking at how Edward Snowden gained access to “a huge trove of the country’s most highly classified documents” say he used inexpensive, widely available software to do so, The New York Times reports. Snowden used “web crawler” software to scrape data out of systems as he completed his daily tasks as a technology subcontractor for the NSA in a process that a senior intelligence official called “quite automated.” The NSA is currently collecting data on about 30 percent of phone calls in the U.S. (Registration may be required to access to this story.)
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