The NSA is moving far beyond collection of data in an attempt to implant malicious software on potentially millions of computers worldwide, mimicking a criminal "bot-net," according to the newest Edward Snowden leak. “This is not about targeted surveillance anymore, but wholesale mass surveillance – the legality of which has been questioned by some of its participants,” writes John Shier, a security adviser at Sophos, a global ...

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The NSA is moving far beyond collection of data in an attempt to implant malicious software on potentially millions of computers worldwide, mimicking a criminal "bot-net," according to the newest Edward Snowden leak. “This is not about targeted surveillance anymore, but wholesale mass surveillance – the legality of which has been questioned by some of its participants,” writes John Shier, a security adviser at Sophos, a global cloud-security provider in Oxford, England, in an e-mail interview. “The rapid growth of this program seems to further support the idea that the NSA’s definition of targeted surveillance is not quite the same as the rest of the world’s.”

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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.