NSA = IT IS EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT!
NSA = Intercepts computer deliveries to exploit hardware vulnerabilities = Tailored Access Operations, or TAO = ELITIST team of hackers specializing in stealing data
NSA = Hijack Microsoft’s internal reporting system to spy on their targets.
NSA TAO = Gathered “some of the most significant intelligence our country has ever seen” used high-tech gadgets to record what is being typed across the screen.
NSA TAO = HIDDEN USB sticks with radio transmitters to broadcast stolen data over the airwaves
NSA TAO = Exploits weaknesses in the Internet to deliver malicious software to specific computers.
NAO TAO = Uses Weaknesses in hardware and software = catalog list of vulnerabilities “compromising the technology and products of American companies.”
NSA TAO = USED the FBI and the CIA to intercept the hardware in transit, and take it to a secret workshop where it could be discretely fitted with espionage software before being sent on its way = NSA’s “most productive operations.”
NSA = Poked fun at Microsoft “This information may be intercepted by a foreign sigint (signals intelligence) system to gather detailed information and better exploit your machine.”
Microsoft = Demands more transparency from the NSA = ignited an international debate over privacy and surveillance.
terrists = rank last in what is harming AMERICANS AND OTHERS
