@War: The Rise Of The Military-Internet Complex - Plot & Excerpts
He was an adept technician. “When he would talk to our engineers, he would get down in the weeds as far as they were. And he’d understand what they were talking about,” says a former senior NSA official. Then, when surveillance laws were changed in 2007 and 2008 to allow broader access to communications networks, Alexander seized the political moment and turned the NSA into the undisputed spymaster of the Internet. The agency was given the authority and the money to build up a hacker force. Technically speaking, they were intelligence agency employees, instructed only to monitor networks. But when they linked up with Cyber Command, they became warriors. The hackers flowed freely from one mission to the other and blurred the lines between espionage and combat. And one group of hackers in particular became the NSA’s secret weapon. The agency’s best-trained and most skilled hackers work in its Tailored Access Operations office, or TAO. Estimates on the number of personnel assigned there vary, from three hundred on the low end to perhaps as many as six hundred, but this latter number may include analysts and support personnel as well.
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