NSA Bugs the World

[Bible_Belt]

http://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-actually-intercepted-packages-to-put-backdoors-1491169592

The NSA Actually Intercepted Packages to Put Backdoors in Electronics

The NSA revelations keep on coming, and if you're feeling desensitized to the whole thing it's time to refocus and get your game face on for 2014. Because sh!t continues to get real.

SPIEGEL published two pieces this morning about the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division, aka premier hacking ninja squad. According to Snowden documents, TAO has a catalog of all the commercial equipment that carries NSA backdoors. And it's a who's who of a list. Storage products from Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung have backdoors in their firmware, firewalls from Juniper Networks have been compromised, plus networking equipment from Cisco and Huawei, and even unspecified products from Dell. TAO actually intercepts online orders of these and other electronics to bug them.

SPIEGEL notes that the documents do not provide any evidence that the manufacturers mentioned had any idea about this NSA activity. Every company spokesperson contacted by Spiegel reporters denied having any knowledge of the situation, though Dell officials said instead that the company "respects and complies with the laws of all countries in which it operates."

TAO uses software hacking in things like Windows bug reports to get the information and device control they need, of course. But if that's not enough, they even have a special group of hardware hackers who create modified equipment for TAO specialists to try and plant. A monitor cable that allows "TAO personnel to see what is displayed on the targeted monitor," costs $30. An "active GSM base station" for monitoring cellphone calls costs $40,000, and converted flashdrives that plant bugs and can also transmit and receive data with hidden radio signals come in 50-packs for more than $1 million. The NSA octopus spreads its tentacles even further.

 

[Vantagepoint34]

I'm telling you we can trace this back to the St. Louis Rams and others.

 

[Fatal Jay]

I'm surprise the government haven't killed snowden yet. They probably trying to see how much he is going to tell though. Don't think these countries got snowden super protected either, the U.S have spies in every country.

 

[LiveFreeX]

In some ways, I wish I had stayed in Computer Science, I love all this stuff.

Are you kidding Fatal? I'm pretty sure Snowden is living in some Area 51 type complex in Siberia or somewhere in the dessert surrounded by land mines, drones and a shark with a laser gun attached to his head.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag..._linuxmint_com&hsimp=yhs-linuxmint&hspart=ddc

Snowden is pictured here on the right side.

 

[Fatal Jay]

^
dude they can get him, don't be fooled.

 

[Drumbum2000]

^
dude they can get him, don't be fooled.

I think they see him more useful alive. As a moving government. Don't you think?

 

[Who Dares Win]

Ask the average person who is snowden and you will be lucky if they will tell you "its that guy from wikipedia", ask someone little above average and he will tell you that "he is the one from wikileaks", ask someone educated enough and he will know who he really is.

The problem is that society is done from the average guys.

I on purpose omitted the less than average informed guy which if asked who snowden is will tell you that "he doesnt watch wwe cause the fights are fake".

 

[LiveFreeX]

Whatever guy, I don't think US intel is THAT good if it takes them 10 years to locate 1 guy on a mountain top, expecting this one to take at least 20 if there is a US even left intact at that point. Infact I think Russia and China outclass the US 2 to 1 in that regard. The US has nukes and big pieces of military hardware but the reds haven't been just sitting on their hands all these years and their economies are fairing a bit better than the US. China is an EASY place to get lost in, christ there are millions of people here per city, a bit of plastic surgery around his eyes and you'd never see that guy again. He is a pretty top priority person and anyone who believes that he's in Russia working for a web design company is an idiot. I don't believe he ever left China, he's WAY to valuable, not to mention the 1000's of documents he's carrying in his briefcase.

The media would like us to believe that he's just some IT guy, I don't buy it for a minute. Anyone with even a shred of computer know how can get access to all kinds of stuff. For the US to hire him as a security guy and put him in a big installation, he's got to have some serious 31|T3 $k|LLs.

He's not stupid. Give credit where credit is due.

 

[FinalWay]

Whatever guy, I don't think US intel is THAT good if it takes them 10 years to locate 1 guy on a mountain top, expecting this one to take at least 20 if there is a US even left intact at that point. Infact I think Russia and China outclass the US 2 to 1 in that regard. The US has nukes and big pieces of military hardware but the reds haven't been just sitting on their hands all these years and their economies are fairing a bit better than the US. China is an EASY place to get lost in, christ there are millions of people here per city, a bit of plastic surgery around his eyes and you'd never see that guy again. He is a pretty top priority person and anyone who believes that he's in Russia working for a web design company is an idiot. I don't believe he ever left China, he's WAY to valuable, not to mention the 1000's of documents he's carrying in his briefcase.

The media would like us to believe that he's just some IT guy, I don't buy it for a minute. Anyone with even a shred of computer know how can get access to all kinds of stuff. For the US to hire him as a security guy and put him in a big installation, he's got to have some serious 31|T3 $k|LLs.

He's not stupid. Give credit where credit is due.

for starters...smoked mirrors... they know what they are doing. a lot of it is propaganda along with others...read through the lines and then read again

 

[Vantagepoint34]

I am sure there will be a good place in Guantanamo for their kind.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

Here's an interesting tidbit that's not altogether unrelated.

Snowden worked for a company call Booz Allen (a private organization who does a lot of heavy lifting for NSA)

Booz Allen is a subsidiary of the Carlye Group

Some of the members of the board of directors of Carlye Group are dudes like Reagan, Bush Sr., some Saudi dudes and Thai dudes.

If you look up the pensions statements for most U.S. cities, you'll see they've invested their funds in U.S. Bonds as well as Private corporations, with private corporations making up the bulk of their investments.

The private corporations?

Big banks, like JP Morgan, and the Carlye group.

So not only are those fuckers collecting all the data in the world, their also siphoning up all the money in the world.

 

[Bokanovsky]

I'm surprise the government haven't killed snowden yet. They probably trying to see how much he is going to tell though. Don't think these countries got snowden super protected either, the U.S have spies in every country.

First of all, the Obama administration does not have the balls to kill Snowden while he is in Russia. Notwithstanding their tough rhetoric, the Americans prefer not to mess with countries like Russia and China. Instead, they go after easy targets that can't fight, like Iraq and Libya. Second, Snowden is too big a name now. There would be a political outcry, both domestically and internationally, if they tried to assassinate him.

 

[Vantagepoint34]

First of all, the Obama administration does not have the balls to kill Snowden while he is in Russia. Notwithstanding their tough rhetoric, the Americans prefer not to mess with countries like Russia and China. Instead, they go after easy targets that can't fight, like Iraq and Libya. Second, Snowden is too big a name now. There would be a political outcry, both domestically and internationally, if they tried to assassinate him.

Whether he is alive or not. What does it matter?

 

[gravityeyelids]

I've been reading up on all this and i'm astounded. I've always had an extremely cynical view of anything to do with the government. This scares the sh!t out of me, yet doesn't surprise me. The worst part of the whole thing: if you read through the journalism about this, they often aren't taking his side. Either that or they say he's both a crook and a patriot. So much for the power of journalism.

This one especially pisses me off:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...0dda42-749d-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html

Like. Really? fvck you man.

 

[Warrior74]

American Liberty died not with applause or a whimper, but with the theme song of a reality show and the boot up sound of a game station.

 

[Vantagepoint34]

This guy is the definition of a pirate gone wild. That's why people look up to him.

 

[OzyBoy]

Scary stuff. This has just re-iterated to me that privacy is virtually a thing of the past.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Even if someone agrees to give up all of their privacy in order to catch terrorists, when the NSA is planting back doors into everything, it's only a matter of time before someone else figures out a way through. And that someone won't care if you're a terrorist, they just want your bank and credit card information.

 

[Rave18]

Something I worry about

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/im-being-followed-how-google-151-and-104-other-companies-151-are-tracking-me-on-the-web/253758/

 

[Rave18]

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