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NSA's Malware Methods Outed in Latest Leak
NBC ^ | March 12, 2014 | Devin Coldewey

Posted on 03/13/2014 5:21:22 PM PDT by Aqua Buddhist

The latest report from the top-secret documents that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden made off with describes the agency's efforts to infect and monitor PCs much in the way ordinary hackers do. The methods aren't particularly original, but the scale of the operations is huge.

Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald reported on the revelations in great detail, but the takeaway is fairly straightforward. The NSA is employing hacking tools that will sound familiar to anyone in the security field: browser exploits, man-in-the-middle attacks and plain old spam....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Technical
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; computercrime; nsa; nsascandals; surveillance
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To: ScottinVA

By his=This


21 posted on 03/13/2014 7:01:20 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Aqua Buddhist

This is what happens if you oppose Dear Leader.


22 posted on 03/13/2014 8:12:27 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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