NSA can eavesdrop on your PC even if it is not on internet

[umbertino]

The NSA has developed technology which allows it to eavesdrop on computers even if they are not connected to the internet, from a distance of eight miles

 

 

By Matthew Sparkes

12:33PM GMT 15 Jan 2014

 

 

The NSA has created devices which allow it to eavesdrop on computers even if they are not connected to the internet, and from a distance of eight miles, according to reports.

 

The New York Times claims that the technology has been in use in a project called Quantum since as early as 2008, and relies on small radio transmitters which can be placed inside computers or peripherals.

 

The documents reveal that covert transceivers can be placed inside USB cables which send data back to a briefcase-sized machine. The chip can also receive information, potentially allowing malware to be installed on to the computer.

 

The information reportedly comes from documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Files describe a device called Cottonmouth I which sends information through “covert channels” and appears to be a normal USB cable. Another device is a small computer chip which can be fitted inside computers at the factory or after purchase.

 

The devices communicate with a briefcase-sized base station called Nightstand from a distance of up to eight miles in “ideal environmental conditions”. Other base stations can act as a relay and connect the target’s computer with other machines at NSA headquarters.

 

 

But these machines and their code names are at least five years old, according to reports, meaning that their capabilities may now be far more advanced.

 

According to the newspaper, documents show that “computer network exploitation” has spread as far as the Chinese and Russian military, Mexican police and drugs cartels, the European Union and targets in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and India.

 

“NSA's activities are focused and specifically deployed against - and only against - valid foreign intelligence targets in response to intelligence requirements,” Vanee Vines, an agency spokeswoman, said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal.

 

“We do not use foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of - or give intelligence we collect to - US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line.”

 

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/10573573/NSA-can-eavesdrop-on-your-PC-even-if-it-is-not-on-internet.html

[MyLadiesDaddy]

NOT for long.

GO RV.

[DinarMillionaire]

They'll get an ear full at my house.

[gymrat76541]

America has been monitored since the invention of the telephone & radio.

 

If this is shocking news to you then you have been living in a box, or your head was buried in the sand.

 

As long as you are doing things legal you have nothing to worry about. Terrorism, kiddy porn, plotting to over throw the government, threatening to do something illegal will send up a red flag and in my opinion you should be caught.

[vietnam1969]

       DOES THIS REALLY SURPRISE ANYONE?

[AoK]

“NSA's activities are focused and specifically deployed against - and only against - valid foreign intelligence targets in response to intelligence requirements,” Vanee Vines, an agency spokeswoman, said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal.
 
 

“..it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
 

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.“   James Madison, Political Observations, 1795

 

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."  Plato, "The Republic" Book VII 566-E  

 

[Muleslayer]

“NSA's activities are focused and specifically deployed against - and only against - valid foreign intelligence targets in response to intelligence requirements,” Vanee Vines, an agency spokeswoman, said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal.

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