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A Good American

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A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2015-09-23

Runtime: 100 mins

Director: Friedrich Moser

Writer: Friedrich Moser

Spoken language: English

Genres: Documentary

Original title: A Good American

Production Companies: Slingshot Films, Blue + Green Communication

Production Countries: Austria

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