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US cyber-spies strike electronic gold

Without waiting for their former employee Edward Snowden to blow the whistle on their work as contractors to the National Security Agency (NSA), the US cyber-intelligence consultants Booz Allen Hamilton and others have already moved on to fresh pastures. The [...] (487 words)

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