NSA Can Enter Computers Even When Offline

The US National Security Agency has technology that can access a user’s computer and alter data even when that computer is not connected to the Internet, according to a report in the New York Times.  Some 100,000 computers worldwide have allegedly been infected. According to the report, the technology can be inserted into a computer through the likes of a memory sticks or disks physically inserted into the computer.  Once inside the computer the spyware uses the circuit boards and memory cards to establish a covert channel of radio waves that connect the computer to a spy network.  Someone’s computer…