12-30-2013, 03:23 PM
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NSA's Secret Toolbox: RU Hacked?
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Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need
The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices. Here are some excerpts from the intelligence agency's own catalog.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...6.html#ref=rss
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It's not just Desktops, wireless and mobile ... If you believe what this article tells the NSA is busy compromising internet routers and servers too.
Even better, they are hacking into the BIOS on motherboards. Compromising firmware is a hacker's wet dream ...
Don't click :P
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NSA analysts have a laugh at the expense of Microsoft.
In response to a query from SPIEGEL, NSA officials issued a statement saying, "Tailored Access Operations is a unique national asset that is on the front lines of enabling NSA to defend the nation and its allies." The statement added that TAO's "work is centered on computer network exploitation in support of foreign intelligence collection." The officials said they would not discuss specific allegations regarding TAO's mission.
One trail also leads to Germany. According to a document dating from 2010 that lists the "Lead TAO Liaisons" domestically and abroad as well as names, email addresses and the number for their "Secure Phone," a liaison office is located near Frankfurt -- the European Security Operations Center (ESOC) at the so-called "Dagger Complex" at a US military compound in the Griesheim suburb of Darmstadt.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...6.html#ref=rss
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What they are not talking about is international cooperation in this endeavor -- the NSA is not operating in a vacuum the blowback should be interesting to say the least. |
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