Reports this week that the National Security Agency uses radio signals to collect data from tens of thousands of non-U.S. computers, some not connected to the Internet, is sure to fuel more acrimony towards the U.S. spy agency.
But observers note that the NSA is not the first of the world's spy agencies to use such technology to surreptitiously gather classified information from other countries.

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