Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

1 of 324 comments (clear)

  1. Re:wait a second.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Spying on Americans is ok to get fussy about but why was this leaked and why doesn't the NYT realize that this actually does set back U.S. intelligence?

    Spying on innocent people in general is wrong.