Leaked Photos Show NSA Hardware Interception And Bug-Planting Workstation

A recent photo from classified National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden and released to coincide with Glenn Greenwald’s new book provides a glimpse at NSA’s Tailored Access Operations division — where the agency intercepts retail-grade networking equipment to secretly implant bugs and other tracking systems.

According to Greenwald’s latest NSA revelations, the signals intelligence agency routinely infected off-the-shelf networking technology with spyware, including hardware from popular network developer Cisco.

The photo depicts casually dressed techs carefully opening and unpacking boxes, plugging the machines into a workstation, and uploading…

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