NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware

Re:NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to i... by venomsnake on Sunday December 29, 2013 @02:02PM (#6980744)

I am looking. The main problem is unchecked. But also the article said they have the ability to do it per shipment.

And if the backdoors mention into the article about the software are zero days exploits they are totally fair game. If they are real backdoors - this is a whole other case. But there hasn't been leaked that kind of info except the RNG.

And in some perverted way if my PC has to report to someone I prefer it to be to NSA than to my own country.

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Re:NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to i... by malandrew on Sunday December 29, 2013 @07:32PM (#6982369)

So instead of every single Macbook Pro, it's just those used by key people in your government and key people in industries that compete with industries the US government considers national security assets.

That's still enough to constitute an act of war. We are not at war with Germany. We are allied with them. What we are doing bugging our allies instead of using diplomacy shows that we are simply untrustworthy.

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