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                       NSA Website Inaccessible for Hours

   The U.S. National Security Agency`s website was not accessible for
   several hours Friday.
   An NSA spokesman said the site went down during a scheduled update,
   dismissing claims that the site had endured a denial-of-service attack.
   A denial-of-service attack is an attempt by outsiders to make a network
   unavailable to its intended users.
   Hacker groups Tweeted jokes about the failure of the government
   website.
   The NSA has been at the center of a global uproar over its vast
   electronic surveillance operations, revealed in a series of leaks from
   former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
   A coalition of groups known as Stop Watching Us is staging a rally in
   Washington Saturday to protest the widespread surveillance revealed in
   the Snowden leaks.
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