In July 2013, GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency,forced journalists at the London headquarters of The Guardian to completely obliterate the memory of the computers on which they kept copies of top-secret documents provided to them by former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden.
However, in its attempt to destroy information, GCHQ also revealed intriguing details about what it did and why.
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The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
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That has to be a bit embarrassing for GCHQ as what they attempted to do backfired to a degree on them.
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