More of this Hollywood movie plot version of network security:
> The analyst can then decide what he wants to do - the computer of the target person does not belong to them anymore, it then more or less belongs to the U.S. government.
This is kind of like when he said:
> You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine.
Software types reading this stuff know that this is not how computer networks generally work. Maybe it is a dumbed-down reference to some sort of government malware. If so I would like to see more technical precision from Snowden before I can say that he has any chance of knowing what he's talking about.
> The analyst can then decide what he wants to do - the computer of the target person does not belong to them anymore, it then more or less belongs to the U.S. government.
This is kind of like when he said:
> You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine.
Software types reading this stuff know that this is not how computer networks generally work. Maybe it is a dumbed-down reference to some sort of government malware. If so I would like to see more technical precision from Snowden before I can say that he has any chance of knowing what he's talking about.