London - A well-known privacy advocate has given the public
an unusually explicit peek into the intelligence world’s tool box, pulling back
the curtain on the National Security Agency’s arsenal of high-tech spy gear.
Jacob Appelbaum, a security expert and independent
journalist, on Monday spoke to a hacker conference in Germany about dozens of
purported NSA documents, including descriptions of how iPhones could be rigged
to turn them into eavesdropping tools and radar wave devices that could harvest
keystrokes even when a computer isn’t connected to the Internet.
The provenance of the documents, which were first published
by German magazine Der Spiegel, wasn’t made explicit.
Appelbaum and Der Spiegel have both played a role in the
disclosures of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but neither has clarified whether
these documents came from Snowden.
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