{"id":4673,"date":"2015-01-20T07:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2015-01-20T07:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:20:40","slug":"the-digital-arms-race-nsa-preps-america-for-future-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4673","title":{"rendered":"The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"headline-intro\">The Digital Arms Race:<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"headline\">NSA Preps America for Future Battle<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Normally, internship applicants need to have polished resumes, with volunteer work on social projects considered a plus. But at Politerain, the job posting calls for candidates with significantly different skill sets. We are, the ad says, &#8220;looking for interns who want to break things.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Politerain is not a project associated with a conventional company. It is run by a US government intelligence organization, the National Security Agency (NSA). More precisely, it&#8217;s operated by the NSA&#8217;s digital snipers with\u00a0<a class=\"text-link-int\" title=\"Tailored Access Operations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html\">Tailored Access Operations<\/a>\u00a0(TAO), the department responsible for breaking into computers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Potential interns are also told that research into third party computers might include plans to &#8220;remotely degrade or destroy opponent computers, routers, servers and network enabled devices by attacking the hardware.&#8221; Using a program called Passionatepolka, for example, they may be asked to &#8220;remotely brick network cards.&#8221; With programs like Berserkr they would implant &#8220;persistent backdoors&#8221; and &#8220;parasitic drivers&#8221;. Using another piece of software called Barnfire, they would &#8220;erase the BIOS on a brand of servers that act as a backbone to many rival governments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Arms Race:\u00a0NSA Preps America for Future Battle Normally, internship applicants need to have polished resumes, with volunteer work on social projects considered a plus. But at Politerain, the job posting calls for candidates with significantly different skill sets. We are, the ad says, &#8220;looking for interns who want to break things.&#8221; Politerain is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2760,1543,338,1339,2761,483,551,577,765],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-digital-arms-race","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-freedom","tag-internet","tag-internet-control","tag-liberty-2","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}