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How the NSA Can Get Onto Your Computer | FRONTLINE

2014-05-29T15:49:33.575Z

Many of the NSA's programs revealed in the Snowden leaks describe the agency's ability to target specific pieces of software.
But as The New York Times and others reported earlier this year, there is a suite of programs, codenamed QUANTUM, which allows the NSA access to a much wider variety of computers.

We had security expert Ashkan Soltani break it down.

You can watch our full report on NSA surveillance, "United States of Secrets," online anytime: http://to.pbs.org/1eDFGyQ

"Collect It All": Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage & Spying on U.N.

2014-05-13T21:56:48.589Z

Published on May 13, 2014
http://www.democracynow.org - Nearly a year after he first met Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald continues to unveil new secrets about the National Security Agency and the surveillance state. His new book, "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State," is being published today. It includes dozens of previously secret NSA documents, including new details on how the NSA routinely intercepts routers, servers and other computer hardware devices being exported from the United States.

Watch the full interview with Glenn Greenwald, as well as all Democracy Now! interviews with him over the past year:
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/13...

According to leaked documents published in the book, the NSA then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal and sends them on. This gives the NSA access to entire networks and all their users. The book includes one previously secret NSA file that shows a photo of an agent opening a box marked CISCO. Below it reads a caption: "Intercepted packages are opened carefully." Another memo observes that some signals intelligence tradecraft is "very hands-on (literally!)." Greenwald joins us in the studio to talk about this and other new revelations about the NSA, including its global economic espionage, spying at the United Nations, and attempting to monitor in-flight Internet users and phone calls. For his reporting on the NSA, Greenwald recently won a George Polk Award and was part of the team from The Guardian that just won the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. "Once people understood that this extraordinary system of suspicionless surveillance, which was truly unprecedented in scope, had been created completely in the dark, it became more than a surveillance story," Greenwald says. "it became a story about government secrecy and accountability and the role of journalism, and certainly privacy and surveillance in the digital age."

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"We Won't Succumb to Threats": Journalists Return to U.S. For First Time Since Revealing NSA Spying

2014-04-14T22:13:27.037Z

Ten months ago, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald flew from New York to Hong Kong to meet National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Poitras and Greenwald did not return to the United States until this past Friday when they flew from Berlin to New York to accept the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting. They arrived not knowing if they would be detained or subpoenaed after Director of National Intelligence James Clapper described journalists working on the NSA story as Snowden's "accomplices." At a news conference following the George Polk Award ceremony, Poitras and Greenwald took questions from reporters about their reporting and the government intimidation it has sparked.

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Dragnet Nation: Do Google, Facebook Know More Private Info Than NSA and Soviet-Era Secret Police?

2014-04-08T21:47:52.211Z

Published on Apr 2, 2014
http://www.democracynow.org - Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin joins us to discuss her new book, "Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance." Currently at ProPublica and previously with the Wall Street Journal, Angwin details her complex and fraught path towards increasing her own online privacy. According to Angwin, the private data collected by East Germany's Soviet-era Stasi secret police could pale in comparison to the information revealed today by an individual's Facebook profile or Google search.

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Peeping Webcam? With NSA Help, British Spy Agency Intercepted Millions of Yahoo Chat Images

2014-02-28T23:54:21.063Z

Published on Feb 28, 2014

The latest top-secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) may have peered into the lives of millions of internet users who were not suspected of wrongdoing. The surveillance program codenamed "Optic Nerve" compiled still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and stored them in the GCHQ's databases with help from the NSA. In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency reportedly amassed webcam images from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts worldwide. According to the documents, between 3 and 11 percent of the Yahoo webcam images contained what the GCHQ called "undesirable nudity." The program was reportedly also used for experiments in "automated facial recognition" as well as to monitor terrorism suspects. We speak with James Ball, one of the reporters who broke the story. He is the special projects editor for Guardian U.S.