NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden documents reveal UK law enforcement agencies have engaged in denial-of-service attacks. GCHQ surveillance agency used hacking techniques to disrupt communications of Anonymous and LulzSec hackers, NBC News reports. NBC News says that this makes the British government the first Western government known to have conducted such an attack GCHQ says it operates within the law: All of GCHQs work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework”]
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