Science & technology | Trust and the NSA

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By T.C.

FIRSTLY, apologies for the somewhat late post—blame the Christmas holidays. But a couple of days ago, the German newspaper Der Spiegel ran a long story that detailed some of the ways in which America's National Security Agency (NSA) tries to subvert the computers of its targets. The story itself is worth a read, and there is plenty of good commentary elsewhere on the web. But Cory Doctorow flags up one especially fascinating anecdote:

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