Edward Snowden 2.0: Is There Another NSA Leaker at Work?

Recent leaks which seem to come from within the NSA may not originate from Edward Snowden, suggesting there is a second leaker at work.Getty

Just over a year ago Edward Snowden began revealing the breadth and depth of government surveillance around the world.

It has changed the way a lot of people have operated online with an increased interest in privacy and security even among ordinary citizens.

The revelations from the documents Snowden took while working for the NSA continue to shock and surprise, with the latest revelationshowing that the NSA captured and retained intimate and sensitive email conversations, images and documents of more than 10,000 citizens - despite those men and women not being classified as targets.

Another Snowden?

However it was a revelation about NSA spying from last week in Germanywhich has raised another question: Is there another Edward Snowden out there, leaking sensitive information about the NSA's inner workings to journalists?

On Thursday, German website Tagesschaurevealed that the NSA was using a tool called XKeyScore to target web users who searched for anything related to privacy-focused operating system Tails or the anonymity network called Tor, branding those that did as "extremists".

In a report on BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow says he spoke to technical experts who have worked on "the full set of Snowden docs" about this latest leak and they were "shocked".

Another expert Doctorow spoke to suggested that this leak came from a source other than Snowden.

"I think there's a second leaker out there"

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Edward Snowden 2.0: Is There Another NSA Leaker at Work?