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by jhasse 3519 days ago
What exactly is a TAO target?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations

Aka NSA's "we really need to get access to this device and will fund diverting backbone traffic / writing firmware malware / whatever else we need to in order to get it" team(s).

Tailored Access Operations from the NSA
terrible acronym obviously