NEWSMAX: The National Security Agency – already under fire for its bulk phone data mining —
has implanted James Bond-like software in nearly 100,000 computers around the globe to spy on them, and pave a digital path to launch cyberattacks, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Most of the super-spyware is inserted through computer networks, but the NSA has increasingly used secret technology to penetrate computers that aren’t connected to the Internet, allowing the agency to enter and alter data, The Times reported.
The high-tech radio frequency technology has been used by the agency since 2008, the report said, letting U.S. spy agencies crack into previously impervious computers of friends and foes alike… (more)
