Even if you make use of Snowden’s tips for remaining anonymous online, there might not be much you can do to escape the NSA’s latest expansion. Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept report that classified files reveal “new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with malware ‘implants.’” The implants will be part of a major expansion that will eliminate the need for manual intervention in the hacking process, leaving “mass scale” hacks in the hands of automated systems. The infrastructure supporting the new program will run out of the NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland as well as the United Kingdom and Japan. According to the report, the implants were originally
NSA’s plan to inject malware into ‘millions’ of computers revealed
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