NSA Leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. Has Hacked Into China's Main Routers

NSA Leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. Targets China With Hackers -- Politico

HONG KONG — Edward Snowden, the self-confessed leaker of secret surveillance documents, claimed Wednesday that the United States has mounted massive hacking operations against hundreds of Chinese targets since 2009.

The former contractor, whose work at the National Security Agency gave him access to highly classified U.S. intelligence, made the assertions in an interview with the South China Morning Post. The newspaper said he showed it “unverified documents” describing an extensive U.S. campaign to obtain information from computers in Hong Kong and mainland China.

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My Comment: The key sentence in this report is the following ....

.... “We hack network backbones — like huge Internet routers, basically — that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he told the newspaper.

I can only imagine what is happening in China's equivalent of the NSA right now .... and in the NSA itself to have this intelligence confirmed to the Chinese by one of their former contractors.