The NSA is building the country’s biggest spy center


By SB Anderson

Oh, and “watch what you say,” Wired suggests in this month’s cover story on a new NSA data center in Utah. 

“Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency.

“A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013.”

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