NSA using radio waves to spy.

[No Elephants]

January 15, 2014, 3: 14 AM
NSA using radio waves to spy on computers but, it says, only overseas: NYT

ASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world - but not in the United States - that enables the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

The Times cited NSA documents, computer experts and U.S. officials in its report about the use of secret technology using radio waves to gain access to computers that other countries have tried to protect from spying or cyberattacks. The software network could also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks, the Times reported.

The Times reported that the technology, used by the agency for several years, relies on radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted covertly into the computers. The NSA calls the effort an "active defense" and has used the technology to monitor units of China's army, the Russian military, drug cartels, trade institutions inside the European Union, and sometime U.S. partners against terrorism like Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan, the Times reported.

Among the most frequent targets of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, the Times reported, has been China's army. The United States has accused China's army of launching regular attacks on American industrial and military targets, often to steal secrets or intellectual property. When Chinese attackers have placed similar software on computer systems of American companies or government agencies, American officials have protested, the newspaper reported.

The NSA says the technology has not been used in computers in the U.S.

Two things.

1/ Is the last sentence of the above quote the truth, or only the "least untruthful?"

2/ Someone tell me where in the Bill of Rights is the proviso that what the US government does overseas doesn't count. For example:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

[Enthusiast]

1. I no longer believe

anything the government says. Pure lies from every quarter calculated to serve the actual shadow rulers of the nation.

[No Elephants]

2. Yet Obama campaigned twice on transparency.

In 2008, he even promised us the most transparent administration ever, though we got the most opaque one ever. But, that did not stop him from promising transparency again in 2012. It was even part of the Democratic Party platform. (Apparently, the D of J, Difi and the Executive Branch need a copy of that.)

Then again, I must admit that he's been totally transparent about everything he wants us to know.

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[NYC_SKP]

3. Recommended. (nt)

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