After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal National Security Agency (NSA) catalog reveals such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.
Above is a spread from the NSA ANT catalog of everyday products and exploits to perform spying and surveillance. Or, as Jacob Applebaum puts it, a document witness of the weaponisation of everyday devices. These and other documents were published by the SPIEGEL in December 2013.
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