"N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers"

[Venustus]

Content source

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html?_r=0

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.

Further reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/u...computers-not-connected-to-internet.html?_r=0

 

[illumination]

N.S.A develops mind probe, capable of hearing color's and seeing noises!
Seriously, these people need a new hobby, and im actually not talking about the NSA..

 

[Venustus]

N.S.A develops mind probe, capable of hearing color's and seeing noises!

Good one!!

 

[illumination]

Good one!!

 

[aztony]

The N.S.A. calls its efforts more an act of “active defense” against foreign cyberattacks than a tool to go on the offensive. But when Chinese attackers place similar software on the computer systems of American companies or government agencies, American officials have protested, often at the presidential level.

The hypocrisy there is enough to choke on. Do as I say, not as I do. The long term ramification(s) of these acts will be the crippling of American tech companies, and their respective products which rest of world are now beginning to distrust. They're already seeing the fallout from this with the loss of major contracts, and as other nations balk at using components developed with American technology.