German TV: Edward Snowden says NSA is involved in industrial sabotage
German television, ARD, will air the interview tonight in which Edward Snowden explains that the NSA collects information from companies, such as Siemens, a German engineering company, which has nothing to do with national security.
According to the New York Times, N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers, the NSA has had the capability since at least 2008 to attach tiny radio transmitters and software inside computers to collect information while they are not connected to the internet. The NSA has attached these devices on at least 100,000 computers worldwide, which can allow the NSA not only to spy on the users, but launch cyber attacks.
This is beyond spooky and sinister:
While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet, according to N.S.A. documents, computer experts and American officials.
The technology, which the agency has used since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into the computers. In some cases, they are sent to a briefcase-size relay station that intelligence agencies can set up miles away from the target.
How easy it will be to start wars based on lies and disappear dissidents and activists into prison now. All they have to do is plant evidence on computers .
Conversely, how easy it will be to disappear evidence of wrongdoing by the PTB discovered on computers and hinder investigations.
...the program, code-named Quantum, has also been successful in inserting software into Russian military networks and systems used by the Mexican police and drug cartels, trade institutions inside the European Union, and sometime partners against terrorism like Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan, according to officials and an N.S.A. map that indicates sites of what the agency calls “computer network exploitation.”
I wonder if they can also compromise usb data storage sticks. It's mind boggling what they can do and what they have been able to do for quite some time now, unbeknownst to us.
No wonder they are obsessed with secrecy.
mimi's link did not work in the US, because "the NDR does not have the rights to it abroad. The video can therefore be accessed only in Germany."
Here is a clip from ABC. I can't find an uncut version. If any of you find one, please let us know.
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ABC pointedly calls Edward Snowden a "fugitive," not a whistle blower who has had to seek asylum in Russia. The ABC clip is shrouded in an explanation about the "Snowden effect," a corporate coined term which unfairly blames Snowden, not the NSA, who really is to blame, for foreign businesses being afraid to buy US computer products because the NSA adds backdoors that spy on them. This doublespeak is like blaming Paul Revere for the colonists' discontent with British taxation without representation for sounding the alarm that the British were coming. ABC also adds an interview with Attorney General Holder, who paints Snowden as a criminal who must admit guilt if he wants to come home and claims that Snowden hurt our national security in ways he isn't allowed to share with us.
Thus, the US is not allowed to see the Snowden interview uncut, but is given a propagandized version that cuts out most of what Edward Snowden actually said and sounds like it was written by attorneys from the injustice department who want to prosecute Edward Snowden as a traitor, not a whistle blower whose life has been threatened by government officials.
Sigh.
I went to der Spiegel to find out more about what Snowden said, not just what ABC news editors allowed us to hear.
NSA affair: Snowden fears Deadly Revenge of the USA
[Edward Snowden] stated in his world's first television interview he gave to the ARD (the program is aired on Sunday night at 23:05 clock). These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket, and then watch as I die in the shower
The MSM doesn't want us to hear Snowden discuss the ugly death threats government officials have made against him, but do want us to hear Dianne Feinstein and Eric Holder make vague claims that Snowden's disclosures harmed our national security in ways they are not allowed to tell us.
I found this transcript which has been translated from English to German to English again, so it's choppy!