Germany’s ‘DER SPIEGEL’ has let it be publicly known that the US National Security Agency (NSA), working with the FBI and CIA, has been intercepting laptops and other electronics bought online by unsuspecting buyers and installing malware and other spying tools. This is of course a direct violation of our constitutional rights which are seemingly disappearing at an alarming rate since Barack Obama took office.

According to Der Spiegel, the NSA  has top secret workshops to install the software before sending the deliveries to the people buying these devices.

Hackers that work for the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division are considered to be the NSA’s top secret weapon and are actually compromising these devices with via ‘backdoor access’ to the hardware and software from major companies like Dell, Cisco and many others.

Microsoft Windows error reports are used to find weak spots in these compromised machines in order to install Trojans and other viruses.

Der Spiegel report also reports that the NSA has tapped into some of the under-sea fiber-optic cables that connect global data infrastructure such as  the “SEA-ME-WE-4″ cable system and others.

These massive underwater cables connect Europe with North Africa and the Gulf states and then continue on through Pakistan and India and through out the world.

So there you go people, your rights are being violated more and more each day and the only thing you can do to get away from all of this is to live “off the grid”.

By Clark Kent @ http://americasff.wpengine.com