First time in history Cryptome.org has released information about the characteristics of NSA’s network surveillance.

According to the newest IP address listing

IP ranges published by Cryptome are used by NSA, by NSA’s private sector contractors, and by NSA-friendly non-US national government agencies to access both stand-alone systems and networks running Microsoft products.

The post continues:

This includes wireless wiretapping of “smart phones” running Microsoft Mobile. Microsoft remote administrative privileges allow “backdooring” into Microsoft operating systems via IP/TCP ports 1024 through 1030.

The site has published NSA-affiliated IP addresses since July ’07. It’s not known if this mysterious source ‘A’ has connections to National Security Agency.