Wednesday, June 12, 2013

NSA Leaker Edward Snowden: The NSA Has More Than 61,000 Hacking Operations Globally

Photo: Edward Snowden in this video grab. Reuters

Edward Snowden Interview: 61,000 NSA Hacking Ops -- Politico

The National Security Agency has more than 61,000 hacking operations globally, Edward Snowden claims in a new interview with the English-language newspaper South China Morning Post.

“We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” the former NSA employee-turned-leaker said.

Snowden also told the newspaper the NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on China since 2009 and that targets include the Chinese University of Hong Kong, public officials businesses and students in the city.

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My Comment: Only 61,000?

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