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NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs
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."
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.
Are they also going to release a story detailing what the Chinese are doing to spy on US from leaked Chinese intelligence?
Seriously?! Are you trying to insinuate that they wouldn't if such leaks were available to them? If so, then maybe you should actually read the actual article alternatively work on your reading comprehension before commenting again as there is a paragraph clearly indicating that they would.
"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold