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The NSA and Snowden: securing the all-seeing eye

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 57, Issue 5

Pages 44 - 51

https://doi.org/10.1145/2594502

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How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 57, Issue 5

May 2014

110 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

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DOI:10.1145/2594413

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