A paper released earlier this month outlined the technical details behind a potential Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) program likely used by the U.K. and their American counterpart, the NSA. The researchers say that one of the largest telecom providers in the world, BT Group (formerly British Telecom), ships hardware to the home and office with firmware that enables this secretive surveillance on a massive scale. The paper’s authors claim to have discovered a key piece to the global surveillance puzzle, addressing several questions that have gone unanswered since documents leaked by Edward Snowden started appearing this summer.”]