If the NSA is interested in monitoring you more closely we
now have information that they will actually intervene in the retail process
and physically get a hold of purchased hardware in order to insure their
spyware is installed.
It's fascinating but also interesting when you consider the
fact that they would be willing to go to all this trouble. Why?
Are they worried that there are still loopholes and work-arounds?
They've been hacking proxy and anonymous networks but they must still be afraid
that some will escape their dragnet.
Or is this because journalists and others have figured out
how to function both on and off the grid? The UK's Guardian journalists have
been purchasing 'clean' computers, setting up shop in hidden locations and
doing their work on these new computers which have never been hooked up to the
Internet. They use 'burner' phones for critical communications and make sure flash
drives aren't re-inserted into the clean computers once they've uploaded data
to a network.
There were those news reports from a couple of years ago
dealing with China's computers and Americans started getting nervous that
Chinese hardware was arriving with spyware already installed that would allow
Chinese Hackers to steal your information.
Was this an attempt by the Intel Community to get Americans
to purchase domestic hardware? Direct shipping from China might have proved too
difficult in some cases to intercept. I used to work at a UPS distribution
center and unless they had specific information it would be pretty tough to
intervene. The boxes are moving through at an incredible rate. The intervention
would have to occur at the ports and that would be a daunting task.
If Americans started purchasing domestically the TAO
operatives could set up interdiction protocols and systems.
It turns out that it wasn't the Chinese. It was our own
government.
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