{"id":5827,"date":"2014-03-13T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2014-03-13T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T18:11:43","slug":"how-the-nsa-plans-to-infect-millions-of-computers-with-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/13\/how-the-nsa-plans-to-infect-millions-of-computers-with-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"How the NSA Plans to Infect \u2018Millions\u2019 of Computers with Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The classified files \u2013 provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden \u2013 contain new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with malware \u201cimplants.\u201d The clandestine initiative enables the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from foreign Internet and phone networks.<\/p>\n<p>The covert infrastructure that supports the hacking efforts operates from the agency\u2019s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and from eavesdropping bases in the United Kingdom and Japan. GCHQ, the British intelligence agency, appears to have played an integral role in helping to develop the implants tactic.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/megalextoria.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/how-nsa-plans-to-infect-millions-of.html\">How the NSA Plans to Infect \u2018Millions\u2019 of Computers with Malware<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classified files \u2013 provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden \u2013 contain new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with malware \u201cimplants.\u201d The clandestine initiative enables the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from foreign Internet and phone networks. The covert infrastructure that supports the hacking efforts operates from the agency\u2019s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and from eavesdropping bases in the United Kingdom and Japan. GCHQ, the British intelligence agency, appears to have played an integral role in helping to develop the implants tactic. via How the NSA Plans to Infect \u2018Millions\u2019 of Computers with Malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1245],"class_list":["post-5827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}