Cenk Uygur
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Operation: Troll the NSA
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June 11, 2013
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7:43Now Playing"A stunt to jam up the National Security Agency's servers got its start in the offices of two BuzzFeed employees.
Chris Baker and Mike Lacher, creative directors at the news site, say they hope millions of people will send a seemingly mundane email about a bad job and travel plans to their friends at exactly 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The catch: the script, which they wrote together, is filled with words that could pique the NSA's interest -- including "bomb," "ricin," "radicalized," "true believers," and "flight school."*
With news that the NSA mass monitors Americans, collecting phone metadata and a huge amount of email data, a small movement has started to flood the NSA with mundane, yet keyword-laden emails. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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