Protestors Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA’s Utah Data Center | Threat Level | WIRED

FOLLOW WIRED Twitter Facebook RSSProtestors Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA’s Utah Data CenterBY ANDY GREENBERG   06.27.14  |   11:47 AM  |   PERMALINKShare on Facebook2.8k inShare70 4 Greenpeace via EFFPlenty of nightmare surveillance theories surround the million-square-foot NSA facility opened last year in Bluffdale, Utah. Any locals driving by the gargantuan complex Friday morning saw something that may inspire new ones: A massive blimp hovering over the center, with the letters NSA printed on its side.Activist groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace launched the 135-foot thermal airship early Friday morning to protest the agency’s mass surveillance programs and to announce the launch of Stand Against Spying, a website that rates members of Congress on their support or opposition to NSA reform. The full message on the blimp reads “NSA: Illegal Spying Below” along with an arrow pointing downward and the Stand Against Spying URL.

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