I know many love to consider Snowden and Assange "heroes", but I think these two are people we should think outside the box on. Are they acting in the interest of everyone, themselves, or another party? The releases, interviews, and otherwise that get released seem very scripted and controlled. The propaganda machine is skilled and there may be unseen benefits to these leaks.
Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to spy on journalists
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It will phone home. Don't do it unless it's disconnected from the network. It might also try to spread the infection through other attack vectors, like bluetooth, or trying to break out of the VM.
> break out of the VM I wonder if this has happened yet?
Most definitely. Here is an example:
http://1337day.com/exploit/22519
Re: Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to spy on journalists
#23I know many love to consider Snowden and Assange "heroes", but I think these two are people we should think outside the box on. Are they acting in the interest of everyone, themselves, or another party? The releases, interviews, and otherwise that get released seem very scripted and controlled. The propaganda machine is skilled and there may be unseen benefits to these leaks.
You realize that you sound like propaganda yourself?
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#24I hope Norton is updating their database accordingly.
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#25I know many love to consider Snowden and Assange "heroes", but I think these two are people we should think outside the box on. Are they acting in the interest of everyone, themselves, or another party? The releases, interviews, and otherwise that get released seem very scripted and controlled. The propaganda machine is skilled and there may be unseen benefits to these leaks.
Like Julian Assange repurposing wikileaks donations into the Julian Assange sexual assault defense fund?
Whatever you may think of the allegations, it has become extremely blurry as what the money donated to wikileaks' operation is actually used for, seeing as how Julian Assange wasn't supposed to be wikileaks.
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#26I know many love to consider Snowden and Assange "heroes", but I think these two are people we should think outside the box on. Are they acting in the interest of everyone, themselves, or another party? The releases, interviews, and otherwise that get released seem very scripted and controlled. The propaganda machine is skilled and there may be unseen benefits to these leaks.
The releases are outside Snowden's control now. He carefully gave a dump of information to two newspapers. Those newspapers control the flow of the information now, and they obviously want to maximise the benefit to themselves by releasing the information in controlled manner.
Re: Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to spy on journalists
#27I know many love to consider Snowden and Assange "heroes", but I think these two are people we should think outside the box on. Are they acting in the interest of everyone, themselves, or another party? The releases, interviews, and otherwise that get released seem very scripted and controlled. The propaganda machine is skilled and there may be unseen benefits to these leaks.
Who cares if they're working for someone? Benefit to who?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> break out of the VM I wonder if this has happened yet?
Most definitely. Here is an example: http://1337day.com/exploit/22519
Got anything that doesn't involve the 2d/3d video acceleration? Those are a rather obvious and off-by-default attack surface.
Re: Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to spy on journalists
#29I know many love to consider Snowden and Assange "heroes", but I think these two are people we should think outside the box on. Are they acting in the interest of everyone, themselves, or another party? The releases, interviews, and otherwise that get released seem very scripted and controlled. The propaganda machine is skilled and there may be unseen benefits to these leaks.
The releases are outside Snowden's control now. He carefully gave a dump of information to two newspapers. Those newspapers control the flow of the information now, and they obviously want to maximise the benefit to themselves by releasing the information in controlled manner.
Snowden is milking the attention as well. Look at the livestream going on right now, he's discussing the information live.