NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware

T.C. Sottek The Verge 12/29/2013

According to a new report from Der Spiegel based on internal NSA documents, the signals intelligence agency’s elite hacking unit (TAO) is able to conduct sophisticated wiretaps in ways that make Hollywood fantasy look more like reality. The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, […]

NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

“While Congress has great latitude to create statutory schemes like Fisa, it may not hang a cloak of secrecy over the constitution.”

~Judge Richard Leon

 

• Dragnet ‘likely’ in breach of fourth amendment • Judge describes scope of program as ‘Orwellian’ • Ruling relates to collection of Americans’ metadata • […]

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