New Snowden Leaks Show NSA Attacked Anti-Virus Software

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @02:09AM from the picking-your-locks-for-your-own-protection dept.

New submitter Patricbranson writes: The NSA, along with its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), spent years reverse-engineering popular computer security software in order to spy on email and other electronic communications, according to the classified documents published by the online news site The Intercept. With various countries' spy agencies trying to make sure computers aren't secure (from their own intrusions, at least), it's no wonder that Kaspersky doesn't want to talk about who hacked them.

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"bath salts", you know, for your "bath" by Thud457 · 2015-06-23 03:37 · Score: 5, Interesting

NSA Attacked Anti-Virus Software
And ya'll laughed at John McAfee and called him crazy!

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