Posted on 12/29/2013 5:36:47 PM PST by Nachum
While the world may have become habituated to (and perhaps revels in, thank you social media exhibitionist culture) the fact that the NSA is watching anyone and everyone, intercepting, recording, and hacking every electronic exchange regardless if it involves foreign "terrorists" or US housewives, the discoveries from the Snowden whistleblowing campaign continue. The latest revelation from the biggest wholesale spying scandal since Nixon, exposed by Germany's Spiegel which continues the strategy of revealing Snowden leaks on a staggered, delayed basis, involves a back door access-focused NSA division called ANT, (which supposedly stands for Access Network Technology), described by Spiegel as "master carpenters" for the NSA's TAO (Tailored Access Operations, read more about TAO here). The ANT people have "burrowed into nearly all the security architecture made by the major players in the industry -- including American global market leader Cisco and its Chinese competitor Huawei, but also producers of mass-market goods, such as US computer-maker Dell." More importantly, thanks to Spiegel (and Snowden of course), the NSA's 50-page catalog of "backdoor penetration" techniques has been revealed.
The details of how the NSA can surmount any "erected" walls, via Spiegel:
These NSA agents, who specialize in secret back doors, are able to keep an eye on all levels of our digital lives -- from computing centers to individual computers, from laptops to mobile phones. For nearly every lock, ANT seems to have a key in its toolbox. And no matter what walls companies erect, the NSA's specialists seem already to have gotten past them.
This, at least, is the impression gained from flipping through the 50-page document. The list reads like a mail-order catalog, one from which other NSA employees can order technologies from the ANT division for tapping their targets' data. The catalog even lists the prices for
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Dang! You stole my comment.
and again a ‘news’ story’ first published by Der Spiegel now picked up and spread like manure . I guess the msm thinks if you say it often it enough it must be true
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Jeezus!
Sounds like a poltergeist phenomenon.
Your subconscious pulling a gag, of sorts, by messing with your hardware..lol
Great vids from the conference in english at
https://www.youtube.com/user/CCCen/videos
Thanks for the info you are posting on this thread.
I bet it is a real source of entertainment
Hey Frank, watch how I blow this geek's hard drive again... bwahahahaha...
Yours is the single most relevant post on this thread.
The implanted interception software in the Cisco and Juniper switches wasn’t malware. NSA paid these companies to include this interception software, just like the NSA paid RSAS to sell deliberately weakened security software.
Maybe not, but it is symptomatic of the ongoing information gathering done for 'law enforcement' by the NSA and FBI. It is only one part of an aggressive attempt to gather all information and deny privacy to telephone, email, or web browsing of any sort.
William Martin (DOB:27 May 1931) and Bernon Mitchell (DOB: 11 March 1929).
I put a Chinese battery in my laptop... things got a little weird... any chance?
"Perceived evil"? What we already know about them, which is just the tip of the iceberg is enough to not need any modifier before the word.
when you consider the combined youth populations of China and India I have heard by numbers alone there will be over 20 times as many gifted kids there as here.
The concern may not be what the NSA can do today but what others will do in the future
Yup. And thanks to the NSA, almost all of our electronics have built in back doors for the chinese and indians to tap into.
Thanks Fedgov!
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