Mon Dec 30, 2013 AT 8:45 AM EST
Newly released documents reveal some of the secret methods of TAO, the NSA’s elite team of computer hackers. TAO has its own shadow network, hacks computers all over the world, and puts bug in electronics ordered by targets of its efforts. Der Spiegel reveals more, including how one project that went awry ruined the days of hundreds of Americans in San Antonio in a way you wouldn’t expect.