“It often was somebody who was willing to plug a thumb drive into the machine.” In this manner, human spies, armed with the secret digital payloads designed by the Operations Support Branch, have been able to compromise smartphones, laptops, tablets, and even TVs: when Samsung developed a set that responded to voice commands, the wizards at the O.S.B. “It could be somebody who was willing to type on a keyboard for us,” Weber said. officer or an asset recruited to work secretly for the agency-a courier for the terrorist the finance minister’s personal chef-must surreptitiously implant the malware by hand. Such operations are incredibly dangerous: a C.I.A. Sometimes a foreign terrorist or a finance minister is too sophisticated to be hacked remotely, and so the agency is obliged to seek “physical access” to that person’s devices. These are hacks, or “exploits,” designed for individual targets. This is not dragnet mass surveillance of the kind more often associated with the National Security Agency. was focussed on what we referred to as ‘physical-access operations,’ ” a senior developer from the unit, Jeremy Weber-a pseudonym-explained. It is the agency’s secret hacker unit, in which a cadre of élite engineers create cyberweapons. office with an ostentatiously bland name: the Operations Support Branch. Inside, on the ninth floor, through another door that requires badge access, is a C.I.A. When employees enter the building, they must badge in and pass through a full-body turnstile. The facility is surrounded by a high fence and monitored by guards armed with military-grade weapons. One of these buildings, at an address that is itself a secret, houses the cyberintelligence division of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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