{"id":10151,"date":"2014-01-05T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T09:24:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T09:24:41","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10151","title":{"rendered":"Der Spiegel: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Der Spiegel: Part I: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html\">Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NSA&#8217;s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency&#8217;s top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Links here to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969-2.html\">Part II, Targeting Mexico<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969-3.html\">Part III, The NSA&#8217;s Shadow Unit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/nsa-secret-toolbox-ant-unit-offers-spy-gadgets-for-every-need-a-941006.html\">NSA&#8217;s Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SPIEGEL has obtained an internal NSA catalog describing ANT&#8217;s various products, along with their prices. A rigged monitor cable, for example, which allows &#8220;TAO personnel to see what is displayed on the targeted monitor,&#8221; goes for $30 (\u20ac22). An &#8220;active GSM base station&#8221; that makes it possible to mimic the cell phone tower of a target network and thus monitor mobile phones, is available for $40,000. Computer bugging devices disguised as normal USB plugs, capable of sending and receiving data undetected via radio link, are available in packs of 50, for over $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence agencies, incidentally, are not the only ones using these types of devices. The same kind of modified USB plug played a role, for example, in a recent high-tech drug-smuggling case uncovered at the port of Antwerp, Belgium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}