New revelations are out about the already embattled NSA. According to documents revealed by whistle blower Edward Snowden, the NSA infected approx. 50,000 computer networks with malware in order to obtain information.
The document says there’s a presentation out from 2012 detailing how they use Computer Network Exploitation (secret infiltration of computer services by installing malware). This malware was installed in over 50,000 locations. Apparently the NSA aren’t the only ones. Belgacom, a Belgian telecommunication technology, was hit by CNE in order to get info on their consumers. Who was behind the CNE? It was the British intelligence service!
Back to the NSA. They use TAO, Tailored Access Operations, to do the hacking. The company employees around a thousand professional hackers. In 2008, they got into 20,000 networks. Now, it’s estimated at 50,000. And that’s just the ones we know about. Of course, the NSA declined to comment. But they said Snowden would release more condemning evidence against this agency. And they held up to that promise. When this scandals broke out last June, it was a big shock to me. In the five months since, so much have come out that nothing shocks me anymore about the NSA. My question is: When is it ever going to end? Or will it ever end?