Showing posts with label Der Spiegel. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America For Future Battle

Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Muller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt, and Michael Sontheimer, Jan. 17, 2015, Der Spiegel

An intern's tasks might also include remotely destroying the functionality of hard drives. Ultimately, the goal of the internship program was "developing an attacker's mindset."

The internship listing is eight years old, but the attacker's mindset has since become a kind of doctrine for the NSA's data spies. And the intelligence service isn't just trying to achieve mass surveillance of Internet communication, either. The digital spies of the Five Eyes alliance -- comprised of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- want more.

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