NSA Infiltrates Via Radio Waves

Just when you thought the National Security Agency couldn’t seem more like a bad spy movie, The New York Times reports that the beleaguered government agency has been using secret technology to enter and alter data in personal computers overseas. Relying on a channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from circuit boards and USB cards secretly inserted into computers, agents can collect surveillance miles from their targets. The NSA claims that the radio wave surveillance is “active defense,” rather than an attack on others. The Times reports there’s no evidence that such surveillance has been used domestically.