When wiretaps won't do, the CIA's 'black bag' squads get data the old-fashioned way

There's been lots of talk about electronic surveillance and government-sponsored hacking lately, but Foreign Policy takes a fascinating look at how the Central Intelligence Agency's digital "black bag" squads get access the old fashioned way -- by breaking into peoples' houses. Carried out "at a tempo not seen since the height of the Cold War" Authorized by the CIA's Office of Technical Collection, the so-called "off-net operations" or "black bag jobs" have been a boon to the National Security A...