BAD HARDWARE WEEK

If a target person, agency or company orders a new computer or related accessories, for example, TAO can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops. The NSA calls this method interdiction. At these so-called “load stations,” agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics, or even install hardware components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence agencies. All subsequent steps can then be conducted from the comfort of a remote computer.
These minor disruptions in the parcel shipping business rank among the “most productive operations” conducted by the NSA hackers, one top secret document relates in enthusiastic terms. This method, the presentation continues, allows TAO to obtain access to networks “around the world.”

Picture above: RC6 via UDP attack
To trick targets into visiting a FoxAcid server, the NSA relies on its secret partnerships with US telecoms companies. As part of the Turmoil system, the NSA places secret servers, codenamed Quantum, at key places on the internet backbone. This placement ensures that they can react faster than other websites can. By exploiting that speed difference, these servers can impersonate a visited website to the target before the legitimate website can respond, thereby tricking the target’s browser to visit a FoxAcid server.” reported the post on The Guardian.

But, don't worry too much about, there is no doubt in your safety anyway, because :)

You are 35,079 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist
You are 33,842 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist
obesity is 5,882 to 23,528 times more likely to kill you than a terrorist
you are 5,882 times more likely to die from medical error than terrorism
you’re 4,706 times more likely to drink yourself to death than die from terrorism
you are 1,904 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist
your meds are thousands of times more likely to kill you than you know
you’re 2,059 times more likely to kill yourself than die at the hand of a terrorist
you’re 452 times more likely to die from risky sexual behavior than terrorism
you’re 353 times more likely to fall to your death … than die in a terrorist attack
you are 271 times more likely to die from a workplace accident than terrorism
you are 187 times more likely to starve to death in America than be killed by terrorism
you’re about 22 times more likely to die from a brain-eating zombie parasite than a terrorist
you are more than 9 times more likely to be killed by a law enforcement officer than by a terrorist
you are 37 times more likely being crushed to death by TV or furniture” than being killed by a terrorist
Americans are 110 times more likely to die from contaminated food than terrorism
you are more likely to be killed by a toddler than a terrorist
you are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a terrorist.

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