NSA intercepts your packages to install back door.

[TreeTops]

If you order electronic stuff on line, your packages that contain certain electronic items may be opened and backdoors installed in them.

" And it's a who's who of a list. Storage products from Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung have backdoors in their firmware, firewalls from Juniper Networks have been compromised, plus networking equipment from Cisco and Huawei, and even unspecified products from Dell."

Read more here: http://eaglerising.com/3886/nsa-intercepts-mail/

[Brad]

I must be blind, but I don't see anything in the source SPIEGEL article that mentions mail interceptions except the summary text saying the NSA "intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting." I only skimmed most of it though. Are they able to do it without oversight?

[TreeTops]

Looks like no oversight, like who does oversight of the NSA, but I have recently been told that they only intercept packages from people that are on the watch list. Don't really know if that is true or not. But that would explain why so many UPS packages were late being delivered this Christmas.

[drjtech]

I must be blind, but I don't see anything in the source SPIEGEL article that mentions mail interceptions except the summary text saying the NSA "intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting." I only skimmed most of it though. Are they able to do it without oversight?

Maybe you didn't read both SPIEGEL articles. This is from http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-s...-940969-3.html

Take, for example, when they intercept shipping deliveries. If a target person,
agency or company orders a new computer or related accessories, for example, TAO
can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops. The NSA calls this
method interdiction. At these so-called "load stations," agents carefully open
the package in order to load malware onto the electronics, or even install
hardware components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence
agencies. All subsequent steps can then be conducted from the comfort of a
remote computer.