29.05.2014 - 11:19 [ Techdirt ]

UPS Insists That It Is Not Helping The NSA ‚Interdict‘ Packages To Install Backdoors

After Glenn Greenwald‘s book came out last week, one of the big stories was the additional revelations about the NSA‘s interdiction program — in which the NSA grabs packages of computer equipment that are being shipped, outfits the equipment with backdoors — and sends them along their shipping route as if nothing happened. Most famously, it included an image of it happening, showing a clear Cisco box: