Nakasone: Foreign surveillance program helped fend off cyber attacks

NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone said Thursday that the special targeted internet surveillance program for non-US citizens known as Section 702 has played an “irreplaceable” role in helping the agency fend off ransomware attacks and prevent weapons components from reaching adversaries, as well as being used to identify threats to U.S. troops.

“702 has helped us to understand the strategic intentions of the foreign governments,” Nakasone explained to the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in a keynote …

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