Copyrighted Image? DMCA | The NSA is moving far beyond collection of data in an attempt to implant malicious software on potentially millions of computers worldwide, mimicking a criminal "bot-net," according to the newest Edward Snowden leak. "This is not about targeted surveillance anymore, but wholesale mass surveillance " the legality of which has been questioned by some of its participants, writes John Shier, a security adviser at Sophos, a global cloud-security provider in Oxford, England, in an e-mail interview. "The rapid growth of this program seems to further support the idea that the NSA s definition of targeted surveillance is not quite the same as the rest of the world s. |