The NSA toolbox catalogue

[Skybird]

After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...994-druck.html

and

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...969-druck.html

Always keeping in mind that the lions share of the boost in surveillance methods of this kind after 9/11 have been found not to be in support of counter terror operations, but ordinary espionage and especially business espionage, and that - I do not recall it exactly anymore - either the head of the NSA or that federal judge three weeks ago or both men stated that it appears as if these operations have not contributed to the prevention of a single attempted terror strike since 9/11.