Surely by disconnecting your PC from the Internet and bashing your cable modem with a hammer you’ll be safe from the prying eyes of the National Security Agency, right? Wrong. Like a bad sci-fi movie that keeps unveiling unlikely technologies, it’s now being reported that the NSA has been using radio waves to tap into offline PCs since at least 2008.
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The NSA can spy on your computer even when it’s offline
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Published January 18, 2014
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The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet, according to N.S.A. documents, computer experts and American officials.
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