How the NSA Plans to Infect “Millions” of Computers with Malware
After a while all these news items about the NSA and GCHQ can seem a bit too much, but not if we take a step back and really understand the enormity of it all.The NSA and its cohorts set up fake Facebook websites, spoof security certificates, secretly record webcam streams, vacuum up everything they can lay their hands on etc.Meanwhile the CIA coolly wipes hundreds of documents from the machines of those who are investigating it, and when caught, threaten their overseers with criminal charges.Given the scale of their operations, tens of billions of dollars in budgets and how many years they've been at it (this article essentially talks about what the NSA was doing in 2009), is it now futile to think that govt. agencies around the world can ever be expected to turn the clock back?I mean, really, is there any possible reality that involves the NSA/GCHQ deleting the mountains of data they have surreptitiously recorded? And unplugging or reversing the hundreds of traps, backdoors, viruses, intercepts, decoys that are aimed at common citizens?