Originally posted on WORDVIRUS:
By Thomas Gaist
15 August 2014
Wired magazine published an extended interview this week with former US intelligence agent and famed whistleblower Edward
Snowden. Conducted in a hotel room somewhere in Russia, the interview
included fresh revelations related to mass surveillance, cyber-warfare
and information-grabbing operations mounted by the US National Security
Agency (NSA).
The meat of the interview centered on a number of operations run by
the surveillance and intelligence agencies, painting a picture of an
American government engaged in ever-expanding cyber-machinations
worldwide.
Snowden spoke about the NSA’s MonsterMind program, an “autonomous
cyber-warfare platform” which has been developed to launch cyber-attacks
automatically against rival governments, without any need for human
intervention. He noted that MonsterMind could easily be manipulated to
provoke spasms of cyber-warfare between the US and its main rivals.
“These attacks can be spoofed. You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one…
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