New York Times: NSA Devises Radio Pathway into ComputersToday
Summary: The latest revelation related to Snowden’s disclosures shows that the NSA has implanted software in computers worldwide that allows it to “enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet” by utilizing covert radio waves.
Key Quote: Over the past two months, parts of the program have been disclosed in documents from the trove leaked by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor. A Dutch newspaper published the map of areas where the United States has inserted spy software, sometimes in cooperation with local authorities, often covertly. Der Spiegel, a German newsmagazine, published the N.S.A.'s catalog of hardware products that can secretly transmit and receive digital signals from computers, a program called ANT. The New York Times withheld some of those details, at the request of American intelligence officials, when it reported in the summer of 2012, on American cyberattacks on Iran.
Summary: The latest revelation related to Snowden’s disclosures shows that the NSA has implanted software in computers worldwide that allows it to “enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet” by utilizing covert radio waves.
Key Quote: Over the past two months, parts of the program have been disclosed in documents from the trove leaked by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor. A Dutch newspaper published the map of areas where the United States has inserted spy software, sometimes in cooperation with local authorities, often covertly. Der Spiegel, a German newsmagazine, published the N.S.A.'s catalog of hardware products that can secretly transmit and receive digital signals from computers, a program called ANT. The New York Times withheld some of those details, at the request of American intelligence officials, when it reported in the summer of 2012, on American cyberattacks on Iran.
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