Марина Ганиева

America's Starwind programme reveals all about Prism and its "brothers"

American Edward Snowden left Hong Kong and set off a bombshell in the information society, which shook the whole world. It's like the plot of a spy movie, played out in real life. The Prism programme, exposed by Mr Snowden, has lifted the lid on a long history of US surveillance in the Internet age. Prism is just one part of a U.S. surveillance program that has the beautiful name "STELLARWIND."
On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered an unprecedented attack on its soil. The shock and fallout from the attack spread quickly across all areas -- the intelligence community being the most sensitive and the first to