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UK spy agency played catch-up to 'master the internet'

It appeared to Britain's spy agency in 2009 that technology was leaving it behind and it needed to get moving on 'mastering the internet'

The NSA station at Menwith Hill in northern England intercepts satellite data, but more capacity to monitor the web was needed. Photo: EPA

The memo was finished at 9.32am on Tuesday, May 19, 2009, and was written jointly by the director in charge of the British Government Communications Headquarters' top-secret Mastering the Internet (MTI) project and a senior member of the GCHQ's cyber-defence team.

The internal e-mail was a "prioritisation and tasking initiative" to another senior member of staff about the problems facing the British spy agency during a period when technology seemed to be racing ahead of the intelligence community.