Many of the NSA’s programs revealed in the Snowden leaks describe the agency’s ability to target specific pieces of software.
But as The New York Times and others reported earlier this year, there is a suite of programs, codenamed QUANTUM, which allows the NSA access to a much wider variety of computers.
We had security expert Ashkan Soltani break it down.
You can watch our full report on NSA surveillance, “United States of Secrets,” online anytime: https://to.pbs.org/1eDFGyQ