{"id":102106,"date":"2013-12-30T23:13:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/you-cant-hide-from-these-things-secret-nsa-spy-programs-exposed-at-conference-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T23:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T23:45:23","slug":"you-cant-hide-from-these-things-secret-nsa-spy-programs-exposed-at-conference-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/you-cant-hide-from-these-things-secret-nsa-spy-programs-exposed-at-conference-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You can\u2019t hide from these things\u2019 \u2014 Secret NSA spy programs exposed at conference in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum revealed what he calls \u201cwrist-slitting depressing\u201d details about the National Security Agency\u2019s spy programs at a computer conference in Germany on Monday where he presented previously unpublished NSA files.<\/p>\n<p>Appelbaum is among the small group of experts, activists and journalists who have seen classified United States intelligence<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/trends\/nsa-leaks-snowden-surveillance\/\">documents<\/a>\u00a0taken earlier this year by former contractor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/tags\/snowden\/\">Edward Snowden<\/a>, and previously he represented transparency group WikiLeaks at an American hacker conference in 2010. Those conditions alone should suffice in proving to most anybody that Appelbaum has been around more than his fair share of sensitive information, and during his presentation at the thirtieth annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg on Monday he spilled his guts about some of the shadiest spy tactics seen yet through leaked documents.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting in-tandem with the publishing of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/nsa-top-unit-tao-954\/\">article<\/a>\u00a0in Germany\u2019s Der Spiegel magazine, Appelbaum explained to the audience of his hour-long \u201cTo Protect and Infect\u201d address early Monday that the NSA has secretly sabotaged US businesses by covertly \u2013 and perhaps sometimes with the cooperation of the tech industry \u2013 coming up with ways to exploit vulnerabilities in the products sold by major American companies, including Dell and Apple, among others.<\/p>\n<p>That was only the main theme of many covered throughout the presentation, during which Appelbaum repeatedly revealed previously unpublished top-secret NSA documents detailing the tactics and techniques used by the NSA to intercept the communications of seemingly anyone on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/appelbaum-30c3-nsa-snowden-986\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Article<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum revealed what he calls \u201cwrist-slitting depressing\u201d details about the National Security Agency\u2019s spy programs at a computer conference in Germany on Monday where he presented previously unpublished NSA files. Appelbaum is among the small group of experts, activists and journalists who have seen classified United States intelligencedocuments\u00a0taken earlier this year by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}