NSA spying on world computers
A new report has revealed that the US National Security Agency has illegally implemented software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world to spy on them. ● The software enables the US spy agency to conduct surveillance on the computers and can create a digital highway for launching cyber attacks, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The newspaper cited NSA documents, computer experts and US officials in its report about the use of a secret technology using radio waves to gain access to computers that other countries have tried to protect from spying. The technology, used by the NSA since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted covertly into the computers, the Times said. In most cases, the radio frequency hardware must be physically inserted by a spy or manufacturer. The agency calls the effort an "active defense" and has used the technology to monitor units of the Chinese Army, the Russian military, drug cartels, trade institutions inside the European Union.
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