New light has been shed on the extensive scope of the National Security Agency’s spying operations yet again in a couple of reports from German publication Der Spiegel, which reveal various new “features” of the covert intelligence operations conducted by the NSA’s “geek” armies. The agency will apparently pull out all the stops in order to get to the information it seeks, even if that means intercepting shipping of computers purchased online by targets in order to infect them with spyware, or replace components with its own malware-installed hardware. In addition to sophisticated attacks that target the digital aspects of modern life, the NSA sometimes still has to use “old-school” methods. When it comes to intercepting deliveries – a tactic
NSA intercepts laptop deliveries to install spyware
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