Throughout the past week, the US media have been dominated by revelations concerning America’s National Security Agency from Edward Snowden. Most of the focus has been on the NSA’s domestic surveillance activities and the extent to which it collects data traffic from millions of Americans. But on Wednesday, the whistleblower focused on another NSA activity: its spying on China. The NSA had “61,000 hacking operations globally”, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and China. This “gives us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers.”
過去整整一週，美國媒體對愛德華•史諾登(Edward Snowden)有關美國國家安全局(NSA)的爆料炒得沸沸揚揚。大部分的關注集中於NSA的國內監視活動，以及該機構在何種程度上收集數以百萬計美國人的數據流量。但在週三，這個洩密者把焦點轉向NSA的另一項活動：其針對中國的間諜行動。NSA「在全球進行了6.1萬次駭客行動」，在香港和中國內地有數百個目標。這「使我們能夠截獲數十萬臺電腦的通訊。」