U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a digital weapon for sale overseas
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#276 points and no comments?
What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?
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#376 points and no comments? What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?
> 76 points and no comments?
This could very well be the effect of the recent proof that everybody is effectively under surveillance now (it's called "the Chilling Effect").
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#476 points and no comments? What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?
> 76 points and no comments?
Water is wet. There's just not much to comment on.
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#576 points and no comments? What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?
> 76 points and no comments? This could very well be the effect of the recent proof that everybody is effectively under surveillance now (it's called "the Chilling Effect").
I dunno, there's been much more controversial and 'risky' subjects with plenty of comments. At least to my mind. I mean, people haven't been exactly signing the praises of the NSA, have they?
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#676 points and no comments? What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?
> 76 points and no comments?
Given that HN contains the antithesis for every single argument that has occurred to mankind, I was especially curious to see if anyone would justify the behaviour and business ethics of Gamma, Hacking Team, etc. Lack of opinions seems weird indeed.
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#776 points and no comments? What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?
What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?
"The user sees the “cute animal videos” he expects, according to Citizen Lab, but the malicious code exploits a flaw in Adobe’s Flash video player to take control of the computer."
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#8Until then CloudShield had sold its CS-2000 device, a multipurpose network and content processing product, primarily to the Air Force and other Pentagon customers, who used it to manage and defend their networks, not to attack others
Given that the NSA must get the hardware for QUANTUM somewhere, this statement seems remarkably strong/naive.
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#10So, does anyone have any inside knowledge (or good references) to what Google ended up doing when they recently started switching their networks to use encrypted transports? Do they run over ip4 or ip6, and are they using traditional vpn or ipsec? I've previously been rather sceptical to the "new improved support for encryption and authentication" ipv6 brings -- I mean we're already late rolling out ipv6 -- is complicating it with key management really what we need? But given the late revelations that even the paranoid have been naively optimistic -- and given that it appears ipv6 is still in need of planning and new projects for a decent percentage roll-out -- perhaps advocating ipv6 with ipsec is a good idea after all?
Thoughts?