How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware

Advocatus Diaboli sends news from The Intercept about leaked documents which show that the NSA is significantly expanding its efforts to build an automated system to compromise computers remotely. From the article: "The implants being deployed were once reserved for a few hundred hard-to-reach targets, whose communications could not be monitored through traditional wiretaps. But the documents analyzed by The Intercept show how the NSA has aggressively accelerated its hacking initiatives in the past decade by computerizing some processes previously handled by humans. The automated system – codenamed TURBINE – is designed to 'allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups instead of individually.' In a top-secret presentation, dated August 2009, the NSA describes a pre-programmed part of the covert infrastructure called the 'Expert System,' which is designed to operate 'like the brain.' The system manages the applications and functions of the implants and 'decides' what tools they need to best extract data from infected machines."

All the more reason...

[ackthpt]

to pull out my old C64, dust it off and find my floppies.

to a happier and simpler time

Re:crime?

[mwvdlee]

I'm pretty sure Snowden will, at some point in the future.

Re:When am I going to get rid of this tinfoil hat?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a fat old dude, I just moon my computer every day -- A moon a day keeps the NSA away.

Re:Skynet?

[Jason Levine]

Dough!

I mean...

Do'h!