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NSA saboteurs in China and Germany

The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use 'physical subversion' to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.”

Previous disclosures about the NSA’s corporate partnerships have focused largely on U.S. companies providing the agency with vast amounts of customer data, including phone records and email traffic. But documents published today by The Intercept suggest that even as the agency uses secret operatives to penetrate them, companies have also cooperated more broadly to undermine the physical infrastructure of the internet than has been previously confirmed.”

In addition to so-called 'close access' operations, the NSA’s 'core secrets' include the fact that the agency works with U.S. and foreign companies to weaken their encryption systems; the fact that the NSA spends 'hundreds of millions of dollars' on technology to defeat commercial encryption; and the fact that the agency works with U.S. and foreign companies to penetrate computer networks, possibly without the knowledge of the host countries. Many of the NSA’s core secrets concern its relationships to domestic and foreign corporations.”

... the agency also participates in a variety of 'human intelligence' programs that are grouped under the codename Sentry Osprey. According to the briefing document’s description of Sentry Osprey, the NSA 'employs its own HUMINT assets (Target Exploitation—TAREX) to support SIGINT operations.'”

The TAREX guide lists South Korea, Germany, and Beijing, China as sites where the NSA has deployed a 'forward-based TAREX presence;' TAREX personnel also operate at domestic NSA centers in Hawaii, Texas, and Georgia. It also states that TAREX personnel are assigned to U.S. embassies and other 'overseas locations,' but does not specify where. The document does not say what the 'forward-based' personnel are doing, or how extensive TAREX operations are. But China, South Korea, and Germany are all home to large telecommunications equipment manufacturers, and China is known to be a key target of U.S. intelligence activities.”

There is a long history of overt NSA involvement with American companies, especially telecommunications and technology firms. Such firms often have employees with security clearances who openly communicate with intelligence agencies as part of their duties, so that the government receives information from the companies that it is legally entitled to receive, and so that the companies can be alerted to classified cyber threats. Often, such employees have previously worked at the NSA, FBI, or the military.”

... the NSA is just one intelligence agency that would stand to benefit from these operations. China’s intelligence establishment is believed to be just as interested in penetrating American companies as the NSA is believed to be interested in penetrating Chinese firms.”

The description of Sentry Hawk, which involves attacks on computer networks, also indicates close ties with foreign as well as American companies.”

The avalanche of NSA disclosures since the Snowden leaks began in 2013 has shattered whatever confidence technologists once had about their networks. When asked for comment on the latest documents, Prince, the CEO of CloudFlare, began his response by saying, 'We’re hyper-paranoid about everything.'”

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