The Shadow Brokers are still active online.
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However nothing in the message proves that it was written recently.
Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. Hacking Tools
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Re: Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. Hacking Tools
#12Would be cute if a foreign country passed an analogue to JASTA [1] making the United States responsible for damages resulting from its developing, and keeping secret, tools for the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in civilian software. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Against_Sponsors_of_Te...
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#13The Shadow Brokers are still active online. https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/57le5u/thes... However nothing in the message proves that it was written recently.
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#14Would be cute if a foreign country passed an analogue to JASTA [1] making the United States responsible for damages resulting from its developing, and keeping secret, tools for the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in civilian software. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Against_Sponsors_of_Te...
What would those damages consist of? The only material impact I can think of is the apparently U.S.-developed Stuxnet program.
Look at how US prosecutors pile on the cost estimates in hacking cases.
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#15So, basically, it looks like there's a reasonable probability that this guy isn't the leaker. I know that if I wanted to actually blow the whistle on somebody like the NSA, I would make sure to plant the evidence on somebody else to give them a juicy target to latch onto.
How principled of you to ruin someone's career and let them spend the rest of their life in prison.
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#16The Shadow Brokers are still active online. https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/57le5u/thes... However nothing in the message proves that it was written recently.
Active publishing contemporary historical smut fiction, it would seem.
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#17It seems like contractors are a massive attack surface for the DoD. I do wonder why they gave a clearance to someone who was apparently a hoarder. If collecting things that interest you in a compulsory manner doesn't suggest to you that this person might be abused by foreign powers, but marijuana use does, your secrets will flow like water.
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#18As far as I'm concerned, the NSA are the enemy - so props to anybody who can poke a stick in their eye. I just hope this guy doesn't wind up in Guantanamo for the rest of his life.
What is interesting to me is that even super security gurus at NSA can't contain their most sensitive data (well, maybe tools aren't highest level?). At some point I think we need a better security strategy than trying to stop data from leaving, and more about how to make sure data is useless outside of its domain. edit: I say that now in retrospect that security and freedoms of data seem always at odds. DRM being a…
DRM is about neither security nor freedom.
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#19The fundamental flaw is employing contractors.. Governments should be doing all things they are responsible for in house.
Contracting anything out costs in terms of added security risk and in profits a contractor will want.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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