ARLA/CLUSTER: As agencias de espionagem sempre usaram os sinais de radio

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Spy agencies around the world use radio

Reports last week that the National Security Agency uses radio signals
to collect data from tens of thousands of non-U.S. computers, some not
connected to the Internet, is sure to fuel more acrimony towards the
U.S. spy agency.

But observers note that the NSA is not the first of the world's spy
agencies to use such technology to surreptitiously gather classified
information from other countries.

For instance, intelligence personnel in the former Soviet Union used
similar tactics to secretly gather information from electric
typewriters at U.S. government offices in Moscow and Leningrad more
than 30 years ago. And experts say it's a near certainty that the spy
agencies of other advanced nations are doing the same thing today.

"Physical compromise of a target's technology is what we expect
intelligence agencies to do," said John Pescatore, director of
emerging technology at the SANS Institute and a former NSA security
engineer.

"The Chinese have been doing it to the laptops and smartphones of
foreign executives visiting China. Years ago the French did similar
things in their country and I'm sure British intelligence has done the
same thing," Pescatore said. "What the NSA is doing now is what all
superpower intelligence agencies have done, are doing, and will do."

The New York Times reported Tuesday that documents leaked last year by
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed that the NSA has
embedded software and hardware "bugs" in some 100,000 targeted systems
around the world. The "bugs" allow the NSA to collect information from
the systems even when they are not connected to the Internet.

Read the full Computerworld article at:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245443/
Spy_agencies_around_the_world_use_radio_signals
_to_tap_data_from_targeted_systems

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