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A German magazine, citing internal documents, claims the NSA’s hacking unit uses James Bond-sty
including intercepting computer deliveries and outfitting them with espionage software.

Der Spiegel's revelations relate to a division of the NSA known as Tailored Access Operations, or TA
elite team of hackers specializing in stealing data from the toughest of targets.

Citing the internal documents, the magazine said Sunday that TAO's mission was "Getting the ungetta
unnamed intelligence official as saying that TAO had gathered "some of the most significant intelligen
seen."

“During the middle part of the last decade, the special unit succeeded in gaining access to 258 targe
everywhere in the world,” the report said. “In 2010, it conducted 279 operations worldwide.”
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Der Spiegel said TAO had a catalog of high-tech gadgets for particularly hard-to-crack cases, includ
cables specially modified to record what is being typed across the screen, USB sticks secretly fitted
broadcast stolen data over the airwaves, and fake base stations intended to intercept mobile phone si

The NSA doesn't just rely on the Bond-style spy gear, the magazine said. Some of the attacks descri
weaknesses in the architecture of the Internet to deliver malicious software to specific computers. Oth
weaknesses in hardware or software distributed by some of the world's leading information technolog
Cisco Systems, Inc. and China's Huawei Technologies Ltd., the magazine reported.

Der Spiegel cited a 2008 mail order catalog-style list of vulnerabilities that NSA spies could exploit fro
Irvine, California-based Western Digital Corp. or Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Inc. The magazine s
agency was "compromising the technology and products of American companies."

Old-fashioned methods get a mention too. Der Spiegel said that if the NSA tracked a target ordering
electronic accessories, TAO could tap its allies in the FBI and the CIA, intercept the hardware in tran
workshop where it could be discretely fitted with espionage software before being sent on its way.

Intercepting computer equipment in such a way is among the NSA's "most productive operations," an
intelligence from around the world, one document cited by Der Spiegel stated.

One of the most striking reported revelations concerned the NSA's alleged ability to spy on Microsoft
familiar to many users of the Windows operating system as the dialogue box which pops up when a g
document dies. The reporting system is intended to help Microsoft engineers improve their products a
Spiegel said the NSA was also sifting through the reports to help spies break into machines running W
document cited by the magazine appeared to poke fun at Microsoft's expense, replacing the software
report message with the words: "This information may be intercepted by a foreign sigint (signals intel
detailed information and better exploit your machine."

Microsoft did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment, but the com
U.S. firms that have demanded more transparency from the NSA — and worked to bolster their secu
revelations of former intelligence worker Edward Snowden, whose disclosures have ignited an interna
and surveillance.

Der Spiegel did not explicitly say where its cache NSA documents had come from, although the mag
published a series of stories based on documents leaked by Snowden, and one of Snowden's key co
documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras — was listed among the article's six authors.

No one was immediately available at Der Spiegel to clarify to The Associated Press whether Snowden
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romags1303

God Bless America & Al gore. We'll never know the truth. The people running the NSA ARE A

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God Bless America & Al gore. We'll never know the truth. The people running the NSA ARE A
Patriots, maybe they just need a little more control. And why don't our politicians know what's
so surprised?

BillPaish

did you read the report, it said in the last decade......the Bush era.

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You know, it is entirely possible that this repeated flaunting of the NSA "omnipotence" is mere
Socialist Democrats to intimidate the Constitutional patriots.

Consider the evidence--even after the Russians warned them about he dangers of the Boston
have bungled it worse if they were a bunch of 5th graders,

And Obama has all the kings horses and all the kings men at his disposal, and in 5 years, cou
functional web site--my God, any private sector major Corporate COO could have made this h
AND IT WOULD HAVE WORKED, because otherwise he would long ago have been fired, rat

And then be mindful, although the Socialist Democrats feel secure that through facilitating the

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