Glenn Greenwald says NSA bugs tech hardware en route to global customers

Science | 206656 hits | May 13 6:33 am | Posted by: ShepherdsDog

American journalist Glenn Greenwald is accusing the U.S. National Security Agency of breaking into tech hardware to install surveillance bugs before the products are shipped to unsuspecting global customers, in a new book about the NSA's mass surveillance

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by ShepherdsDog
Tue May 13, 2014 1:41 pm
So the NSA is loading up spyware on computers and routers before they even leave the factories. Big Brother truly is with us.
by DrCaleb
Tue May 13, 2014 2:24 pm
"ShepherdsDog" said
So the NSA is loading up spyware on computers and routers before they even leave the factories. Big Brother truly is with us.

Has been for a long time.

Not on all routers and computers, just on ones destined for a preferred 'target'. And people get nervous that network hardware made in China has been 'rooted'.
by Public_Domain
Tue May 13, 2014 2:47 pm

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