Global spy system ECHELON confirmed at last – by leaked Snowden files

[GordonS]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/03/gchq_duncan_campbell/

[ablation]

This very same story (but on firstlook.org) has already been posted and heavily commented on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10000428

[GordonS → ablation]

I did use the search function to search for ECHELON before I submitted, but that thread didn't showed up, probably because it doesn't mention ECHELON in the title.