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Snowden Warns Today's Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like 'Child's Play'
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I mean that's kind of a given if you're at all familiar with IT. Check out the ANT Catalog and see what they were capable of in 2008-09. It's scary now, let alone then. Check out EternalBlue and realize when combined with IrateMonk (a damn firmware hack) they could have any system they wanted. I mean the ANT Catalog is chock full of devices specifically designed to get through air gapped networks. And this was in 2009!
If the NSA or CIA want your digital lunch it's been on their plate the moment they decided.
holy shit, no wonder why /g/ is so fucking schizophrenic all the time