"NSA Wizards ‘Time Travel’ Through Captured Phone Calls
Kevin Fogarty
March 18, 2014"

"The newly released Snowden documents also show even more of an SF/Fantasy sensibility among the NSA’s wizard programmers and phone hackers than in previous programs. The time-travel tool is called RETRO, which is short for “retrospective retrieval.” It is part of a program called MYSTIC, which was launched in 2009, according to the Post.

A cover slide on a presentation about the program, created by the NSA Special Source Operations team responsible for large-scale phone-network data collection, shows a pointy-hat-wearing bearded wizard carrying a staff topped by a smartphone."

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