Alongside the outrage, there is also a certain gratitude towards Snowden in some quarters for providing information about what has been going on, including a surprisingly broad spectrum of politicians are calling for him to be offered political asylum
The accusations stemming from the NSA spying scandal continue to flow, as Microsoft is accused of giving US government authorities information on zero-day exploits in Microsoft products before they issue a patch to the public.
The source of the recent leaks and revelations about the Prism surveillance scheme by the NSA in the US has been revealed as former CIA technical operative Edward Snowden.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has direct access to information on the servers of major American internet companies, according to reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post.