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Selling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters

https://www.corpwatch.org/article/selling-your-secrets-invisible-world-software-backdoors-and-bounty-hunters

Mass surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency involves close partnerships with high-tech companies in order to gather data on everyday people. The agency has cut deals to install secret backdoors into computers; exploit flaws in popular software; and surreptitiously analyze personal data from smartphone games.