The (no longer) secret weapon of the American intelligence service is called "Tailored Access Operations" and is a group of programmers and inventors who implement the US goal of 24-hour monitoring of the Internet internationally... TAO Team.
Perhaps the most powerful, but no longer secret "weapon" of the American security service NSA. A team that includes top hackers, programmers and inventors who offer what their name suggests "Tailored Access Operations", making the service's needs for spyware a reality, whether it's cutting-edge software or gadgets that look like they're straight out of a James Bond movie.
They infiltrate the computer systems of citizens, governments, and organizations around the world, intercept conversations and data, and are ready for cyber warfare.
"They monitor orders for electronics and software around the world so that they can 'implant' their own tracking programs before the products even reach the recipient," writes the German "Spiegel", stating that it is in possession of a secret catalog of TAO services and products.
According to the German magazine, in 2010 alone, TAO carried out more than 280 successful operations in 89 countries around the world. TAO was born in 1997, when only 1% of the world's population had access to the Internet, when no one had yet thought of Facebook and Twitter. Its purpose was clear and unambiguous from the first day of its operation: TAO members had to work 24 hours a day and be able to "monitor" conversations and data exchange on a global scale.
The TAO was kept a closely guarded secret until early 2010, when the first tentative reports began to emerge in the American alternative media, mainly in the United States. A few months later, the Washington Post and Foreign Policy magazine investigated testimonies from residents of San Antonio, Texas, who stated that several times a week they found their garage doors locked and could not be opened with the remote controls.
The problem would last for several minutes and then magically resolve itself. “The locked garage incident made Texas residents aware of the TAO group, which was headquartered at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio,” the Washington Post wrote at the time, revealing TAO activities, “and forced them to admit their mistake: they were broadcasting signals on frequencies that blocked garage doors.”
According to “Spiegel,” despite the shocks that the revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance programs have caused in international relations and despite Obama’s announcements of reforms to protect civil liberties, the TAO group continues its work. “Recruitment for the TAO continues,” the magazine writes, claiming that top NSA executives systematically attend hacker conferences in the US, where they recruit their new collaborators.
By IOANNA NIAOTI – Eleftherotypia
Source: koutipandoras.gr
