“The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency’s top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.”
NSA mines data to map Americans’ social connections, report says
“The National Security Agency is using it vast stores of communications data to build detailed graphs of Americans’ social ties, according to a new report, raising new questions about the scope and legality of the spy agency’s surveillance mission.”
WSJ reports NSA spying capabilities cover up to 75 percent of US internet traffic
“The question of how much contact the NSA has with internet traffic throughout the US is being raised again, this time by the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday The Atlantic took issue with the security agency’s mathematics and 1.”
