Any concrete info on the 'magic packet'?
Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
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#42I always wonder. The CIA/NSA must essentially target the big Amazon, google and microsoft clouds to get blanket access to everything running and stored there. Seems like a no brainer from their standpoint.
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#43Aside: Kaspersky is a Russian company.
And this of course means that CIA does not make malware.
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#44I always wonder. The CIA/NSA must essentially target the big Amazon, google and microsoft clouds to get blanket access to everything running and stored there. Seems like a no brainer from their standpoint.
Or they just ask, which is essentially how prism already worked for user data.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its probably because the US government is the single greatest force for evil in the world right now.
This kind of hyperbole is neither instructive nor accurate. What is the intended purpose of this comment?
I'm sure the intended purpose is to vent frustrations, but maybe also to make aware those who've turned their eye from the US's terrible tyrannical and oppressive nature at home and abroad in favor of tribal political trivialities.
It's not an incorrect statement either. I'd put the US up there with China, Russia, Big Tech, and the UN for forces of evil in the world right now.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
This kind of hyperbole is neither instructive nor accurate. What is the intended purpose of this comment?
I'm sure the intended purpose is to vent frustrations, but maybe also to make aware those who've turned their eye from the US's terrible tyrannical and oppressive nature at home and abroad in favor of tribal political trivialities. It's not an incorrect statement either. I'd put the US up there with China, Russia, Big Tech, and the UN for forces of evil in the world right now.
What does "force of evil" mean anyway? It seems like a subjective measurement based entirely on tribalism as a foundation.
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#47I always wonder. The CIA/NSA must essentially target the big Amazon, google and microsoft clouds to get blanket access to everything running and stored there. Seems like a no brainer from their standpoint.
Or they just ask, which is essentially how prism already worked for user data.
Yeah, I highly doubt there's any targeting there. The big tech Co.s are practically fronts for the US Gov.
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#48Any concrete info on the 'magic packet'?
Yes, I would love to know what they were triggering on.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I had to wager I'd always bet on the CIA lying, I don't see how anyone could come to another conclusion given their history.
I've come to a conclusion that, from the evolutionary standpoint, lying (and stealing) is one of the most important forms of the intelligent behavior. We see it in the animal world, so this unavoidably should be seen as such in the world of humans...
Humans have the option of trying to be ethical as well and a lot of people would question if the CIA always behaves ethically.
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#50So this was deployed in 2014 and we’re just connecting all the dots now? It really makes you wonder what’s being deployed at the moment. The fact that they can determine all this from some binary is amazing. Security researchers really are techno-archaeologists.
I recall how when we had North Korean hacking activities and official attributions people would say, but how do we know it was them and how do we know the government isn’t making things up? But when someone accuses the US we never add any salt. Not that I don’t think it’s false, it’s just that the lack of consistent skepticism is interesting.
Yeah, and CNN saying Chinese or Russian hackers always