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NSA Cloud Backup - Stockage gratuit et automatique de vos données privées ! German offers nature walk at NSA base, gets house call from the feds. Who says Germans don’t have a sense of humor? Well, the National Security Agency (NSA) for one. German Facebook user Daniel Bangert shares his hometown with a top secret U.S. facility known as the Dagger Complex. So the other day Bangert, whose Facebook posts rarely veer from the earnest, invited his friends to go on a little trip to the complex, according to a report in Der Spiegel.

He depicted the joke outing as a nature walk, offering "joint research into the threatened habitat of NSA spies,” adding, "If we are really lucky, we might actually see a real NSA spy with our own eyes. " Who says Germans don’t have a sense of humor? They informed him that he'd better talk to the people about to ring his doorbell. "I couldn't believe it,” Bangert told Der Spiegel. Bangert’s sense of the ridiculous was shared at least in part by the officers who interviewed him, he said. Apparently, US military police found Bangert’s posting online and the German police took over the inquiry. Rechercher: dagger complex. NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You | Danger Room.

Gen. Keith Alexander, center, the head of the National Security Agency, visits Afghanistan, 2010. Photo: ISAF The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so. That claim comes in a short letter sent Monday to civil libertarian Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall. The two members of the Senate’s intelligence oversight committee asked the NSA a simple question last month: under the broad powers granted in 2008′s expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, how many persons inside the United States have been spied upon by the NSA? The query bounced around the intelligence bureaucracy until it reached I. “If the FISA Amendments Act is not susceptible to oversight in this way,” Aftergood said, “it should be repealed, not renewed.” Even bellen met de NSA.