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Title: NSA's Radio Spying Could Backfire
Post by: HCK on January 16, 2014, 02:00:21 pm
NSA's Radio Spying Could Backfire

The United States National Security Agency's surveillance efforts reportedly include radio transmissions from circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into computers. This apparently has been going on since 2008. "This is pretty cool," said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research. "You could embed a transmitter in a USB dongle or memory card or mouse plugin or USB plugin."

Source: NSA's Radio Spying Could Backfire (http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/79797.html)