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NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware

by southflorida on 12/29/13, 5:44 PM with 12 comments

NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware
  • by DonGateley on 12/29/13, 8:09 PM

    If there was the shared use of all this intelligence that everyone believes there is then the War On some Drugs would be over and done with overnight. But then maybe that's still in the staging phase.
  • by venomsnake on 12/29/13, 6:15 PM

    I don't like these types of disclosures. I don't think that they further the debate. It is perfectly ok for a security agency to have this kinds of targeted capabilities.

    It would have been better if they also reported a case of abuses of these capabilities.

  • by southflorida on 12/29/13, 5:45 PM

    seems a little far fetched... but i'll stick to building my own machine from now on thanks :/