U.S. Counterintel Buys Access to the Backbone of the Internet to Hunt Foreign Hackers
Getting information from the NSA would take too long, according to internal documents from a counterintelligence agency. So it turned to Team Cymru to buy netflow data that can allow analysts to track activity through virtual private networks
https://www.404media.co/us-counterintel-buys-netflow-data-team-cymru-track-vpns/
Team Cymru is a cybersecurity firm which harvests sensitive data through relationships with internet service providers (ISPs) without the informed consent of people or organizations using those ISPs
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