The NSA Has A Secret Group Called 'TAO' That's Been Hacking China For 15 Years
The deafening sound of internet aggregators shredding Edward Snowden's life into digestible pieces drowned out probably one of the most epic posts of the week: Matthew M. Aid's Foreign Policy piece titled "Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group."
In it, Aid describes how the U.S. has a long history of penetrating China's systems — what they call "Computer Network Exploitation." The U.S. government, as we should have assumed, knows the most intimate details about the Chinese communist party and its People's Liberation Army.
From Aid's piece:
A highly secretive unit of the National Security Agency (NSA) ... called the Office of Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, has successfully penetrated Chinese computer and telecommunications systems for almost 15 years, generating some of the best and most reliable intelligence information about what is going on inside the People's Republic of China.
TAO mirrors China's methods by first hacking into computer networks, then protecting themselves from being identified, and finally copying ALL communications and files from within that network.
Read more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-nsa-unit-tao-hacking-china-for-years-2013-6
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