this is nsa s hacking organization. it s 1,600 men and women, military and civilians, average age, mid-20s, early 30s. it s a very young, very tech savvy organization. the unit is called tailered access operations or tao. the magazine says some of the hackers are based in this building in san antonio. aside from getting in through an error message, they say they can access cookies. those tags that pop up showing a computer s favorite websites. and they can redirect users to a dummy page. it looks like a real page, but it s a fake one controlled by the nsa. this is a dummy facebook page. when you go there, what does the nsa want to find out? one would be to simply intercept and sniff your traffic. for example, i would be logging into this page and they would be able to see, now they have my
needed to protect america. a typical error message from microsoft telling you of a bug in your computer. many of us get them all the time. for some users, that error message may be a way into their computer for an elite unit inside the nsa. this is nsa s hacking organization. it s 1,600 men and women, military and civilians, average age, mid 20s, maybe early 30s, so it s a very young, very tech-savvy organization. reporter: the unit s called tailored access operations or tao. new details of its activities are reported in the german magazine which cites internal nsa documents. the magazine says some of the hackers are based in this building in san antonio. aside from getting into a computer through an error message, the magazine says tao hackers can access so-called cookies, the tags that pop up showing a computer s favorite websites, and they can redirect users to a dummy page on a site