NSA-linked Spying Malware Infected Top German Official's Computer

The German authorities have initiated a further investigation into espionage by the United States secret service NSA and British intelligence agency GCHQ after...  



...the head of the German Federal Chancellery unit had his private laptop infected.



According to a recent report published by Der Spiegel, the laptop of the Chancellery division leader was infected with Regin – a highly

German Spy-Agency Trades Citizens' Metadata in Exchange for NSA's Xkeyscore

This is Really Insane!!



Germany's top intelligence agency handed over details related to German citizen metadata just in order to obtain a copy of the National Security Agency's Main XKeyscore software, which was first revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013.



According to the new documents obtained by the German newspaper Die Zeit, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (