Journalist Glenn Greenwald’s new book highlights a snooping exploit of interest to Silicon Valley: the National Security Agency, he asserts, plants intelligence-gathering “backdoors” in U.S. suppliers’ routers and other networking hardware before they reach foreign customers.Greenwald, a reporter for the Guardian, has written about numerous NSA documents that were provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. An excerpt of Greenwald’s book in the British newspaper Monday cites a June 2010 report from the head of the NSA’s Access and Target Development department.
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