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NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs

Posted by Unknown on from the do-you-trust-your-data-center? dept.

retroworks writes "The New York Times has an interesting story on how NSA put transmitters into the USB input devices of PCs, allowing computers unplugged from the Internet to still be monitored, via radio, from up to 8 miles away. The article mainly reports NSA's use of the technology to monitor Chinese military, and minor headline reads 'No Domestic Use Seen.' The source of the data was evidently the leak from Edward J. Snowden."

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  1. Re:wait a second.... by Above · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    More importantly, if it's ok for the US to spy on China, then it's A-Ok for China to spy on the US. Right? Good thing none of our electrics are made in a country that might want to spy on us and controls industry so they can hide spy tech inside of it easily. Wait, uh, oops.