National Security Agency head, US Navy Admiral Michael Rogers, declined to comment on reports of the alleged installation of spyware on computers by the US government.
Previously, reports surfaced that NSA and its British counterpart,GCHQ, embedded spyware in computers on a vast scale that hacked into the world’s biggest manufacturer of cellphone SIM cards.
Reuters cited Rogers as saying at a Washington forum sponsored by the New America think-tank: "Clearly I’m not going to get into the specifics of allegations. But the point I would make is, we fully comply with the law."
Previously, Kaspersky Lab accused the NSA of eavesdropping on the majority of the world’s computers through its spies, who figured out ways to embed spy software into hard drives of Western Digital, Seagate,and Toshiba.
A report based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden revealed that the US agency and its British counterpart also evesdropped into SIM card producer Gemalto which allowed the agency to monitor emails, calls and texts of users.
Despite declining to comment on the reports, Rogers reportedly argued that gatekeepers needed measures to break strong encryption that are created by Apple and Google.
