Highlights from making Sense of Snowden, Part II: What's significant in the NSA revelations

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 62-64

  Landau, Susan ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Edward Snowden; leakage; metadata; National Security Agency; NSA; surveillance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); METADATA; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

EDWARD SNOWDEN; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES; NSA; SECURITY AND PRIVACY;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 84896456624     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2013.161     Document Type: Article

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