NSA supposedly planning to spy on US networks, denies report

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A report yesterday in the Wall Street Journal claims to expose details of a new NSA program, codenamed "Perfect Citizen," that will monitor critical infrastructure networks, both public and private, in order to look for suspicious activity that could be evidence of an impending hack attack.

The Journal says that the NSA would deploy a set of sensors on the relevant networks, and that the networks wouldn't be persistently and actively monitored—rather, the sensors would act as triggers to alert the agency, which would then take a closer look.

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