This week began with a massive report detailing the NSA's extensive spy operations in the United States, but the revelations didn't end there. Jacob Applebaum, co-author of the original Der Spiegel report, took the stage at the 30th annual Chaos Communication Congress to discuss the specifics of the operations even further, including the existence of a device called "NIGHTSTAND," which has the ability to infect a wireless network "from as far as eight miles under ideal circumstances." Use of the device is employed by the NSA when a wired connection cannot be established. The leaked document also states that an attack by the device "is undetectable by the user."
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