Snowdon is a dummy

The NSA reportedly infected 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software with the sole aim of harvesting sensitive information it wasn’t privy to, which is basically what you’d call textbook spy work in the digital age, from an agency tasked with spying. That’s not to excuse or dismiss the significance of this revelation, but we’ve heard from the Washington Post previously that the NSA was working on this sort of thing and that at least 20,000 computers had been infected by the program as of 2008. So to hear from Snowden documents via the NRC that it’s now climbed to 50,000 is hardly surprising.

New details brought to light indicate that operations from its so-called “Computer Networks Exploitation” program are active around the world, and can remain active for many years without being detected in some parts of the world like Venezuela and Brazil. All the malware can we watched and controlled remotely, and turned on and off “with a single push of a button.” A New York Times report published yesterday also asserts that the NSA has been pushing to stretch its surveillance powers even further, with the aim of catching up to the spread and reach of digital technology and online communications.

The truly amazing thing about this is just how pedestrian the NSA’s efforts are – according to NRC, they’re essentially running the same kind of phishing scams with false email requests that you’ll see from any other purveyor of malicious software. As an example, NRC points to how the British GCHQ used false LinkedIn pages to lure and infect Belgacom network employees. Just one more good reason to never click on anything sent from anyone ever.

German officials have urged the US to restore trust between the countries following allegations of spying by intelligence services. Berlin and Washington are currently working on a new agreement regarding espionage.

I am surprise that they would need to hack into computers instead of just making Microsoft and Apply place back doors into their OS in the first place.

No repeat no close source commerce software created in the US or countries in partnership with the US is completely save to use including OS software.

Hell the government could just force Microsoft to hand over their private keys and download "special" versions of "Microsoft" updates to any select group of computers they care to for that matter.

Spies worry over "doomsday" cache stashed by ex-NSA contractor Snowden

Reuters By Mark Hosenball 4 hours ago
By Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British and U.S. intelligence officials say they are worried about a "doomsday" cache of highly classified, heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud.

The cache contains documents generated by the NSA and other agencies and includes names of U.S. and allied intelligence personnel, seven current and former U.S. officials and other sources briefed on the matter said.

The data is protected with sophisticated encryption, and multiple passwords are needed to open it, said two of the sources, who like the others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.

The passwords are in the possession of at least three different people and are valid for only a brief time window each day, they said. The identities of persons who might have the passwords are unknown.

Spokespeople for both NSA and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.

One source described the cache of still unpublished material as Snowden's "insurance policy" against arrest or physical harm.

U.S. officials and other sources said only a small proportion of the classified material Snowden downloaded during stints as a contract systems administrator for NSA has been made public. Some Obama Administration officials have said privately that Snowden downloaded enough material to fuel two more years of news stories.

"The worst is yet to come," said one former U.S. official who follows the investigation closely.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/spies-worry-over-doomsday-cache-stashed-ex-nsa-205827759--sector.html

Most of the Americans who back Snowden...who consider him a hero...are self-hating Americans intent on showing America to be a barbaric, loathsome, freedom-hating country...and they would get the most benefit out of a fast, sure release of all that information.

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Most of the Americans who back Snowden...who consider him a hero...are self-hating Americans intent on showing America to be a barbaric, loathsome, freedom-hating country...and they would get the most benefit out of a fast, sure release of all that information.

Yes indeed, I am a self-hating American for daring to think that my government have no right to tear up the bill of rights and spy on every damn US citizen that was ever been on the internet with zero probable cause and that there are any number of moral questions about doing such bulk spying on the rest of the world also.

To say nothing of the fact that as a result of this spying American businesses have lost the trust of the world and are looking at the lost of hundreds of billions dollars or more of ongoing business and moving the world to an internet that where all internet traffic will be encrypted so that target spying will be next to impossible also.

bullshit

Well...if you combine that with your obvious desire to kill somebody