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new revelation about the NSA again through Edwards knowns leaks and this
time
I wish he had not revealed this I don't think that this was a good idea
at two at tel as the american people about the whole world about it
so let me quote Mashable here and in explaining
what did an essay is due in computers that are outside the United States
America not all them with some other
quote did what they do is implant things in them in a swing quote the implants
are tiny
radio trans receivers that must be surreptitiously planted inside a
computer
either before being shipped to manufacturers or
afterward by DJ with access the computer is part of a so-called
black bag job sounds kinda fun
I'm so they implant this and what does it do
while they go unexplained the trans receivers which can look like normal USB
plugs
then infiltrate and export trade data from the hack computers
to an NSC really station the size of a large suitcase
up to eight miles away and when they do
even if you goal all line
and what they call air gap in if you ever get your computer while they can
access a cousin on minuto
wrong they've got this already implanted in your computer
so if they got a suitcase like thing eight miles away
dude dude dude & or perhaps slashed
and next thing you know boom they've got the data okay
and so that's an amazing technology it's certainly scary technology
but kinda the technology you want to use if you're the NSA
against their opponents for example with Iran I'll get back to them in a second
okay
so now you don't want them using that against americans that we found out they
were using it against innocent Americans that IBM million per cent against it
and we would need safeguards for that it said it but that's not the story
it's actually apparently in a hundred thousand computers worldwide
and I'm and as they explain your national one more they say since
then SAT use radio waves it
can access the implants even when the computers are completely
offline okay now we know about that cuz
person from der spiegel Jacob have about their security researcher
had recently given a speech to the hacking conference Chaos Communication
Congress
and we'd share that with you on the show but now we know that was on two hundred
thousand computers and specifically
to these different countries and
and people were checked it tracking so at apparently do Chinese hackers
russian military networks Mexican drug cartels
computers and Saudi Arabia Pakistan and India institutions
in India I'm sorry and institutions inside the European Union
and then of course the the famous and now we find out
that they did this Stuxnet cyber attack against Iran's
nuclear facility facilities now we were not sure before
that the US had the stocks that it could have been Israel that had done it
it turns out that it was at least a.m. partly the NSN
and that well those are things I don't think the public should know
me look that says top-secret a program as we have
in the country and what they did was gravely damage to Iranian computers
they're working on there were nuclear program that you might think you're %uh
should have a nuclear part program you might think that
they shouldn't that's an interesting debate a internationally
but as far as american interests are concerned we don't want them to have a
nuclear program
and instead of going to war with them we did this virus Stuxnet
I would much rather do the virus thing go to war
so I actually was in favor of that plan and that's exactly how to manage the
operation
we should know about so a little dismayed by this look
thank you know if we use it on spying in on Russians and Chinese in
in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia I think that's kinda the NSA's job
I don't mind that either now don't get me wrong are they using this for
business purposes
of course it wasn't the Chinese government was chinese hackers
so all those Chinese hackers who getting copyrighted movies
no so of course the United States a corporation's
has taken action right but that's the least a bit institutions inside the
European Union
with Amy Newman government's the user's
those spying things the head at
critical information and trade deals center and that's not help the american
people
that's the help so-called american corporations sure of course
multinational corporations which is of course who the United States government
actually works for so yes there's some advantage in knowing that they're doing
that
but overall I would not ever be a letter this information I think in our porch
leaders damaged Edwards knowns
cause I EPA just stuck with revealing information
the american people needed to know about what they're doing to us
I think that would have been better served I'm sure a lot of people abroad
don't agree they're happy to know what the Americans are doing in these areas
understand that it is critical information but I would've kept a secret