Posted: 8/15/2016 8:27:24 PM EDT
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An anonymous group claims to have stolen hacking tools that might belong to the National Security Agency and is auctioning them off to the highest bidder.
It’s a pretty bold claim, but the hackers have offered sample files, and some security researchers say they appear to contain legitimate exploits. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3107926/security/nsa-hacked-top-cyber-weapons-allegedly-go-up-for-auction.html |
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Snowden comments https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765513662597623808 |
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What an astounding twist of logic. 
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Based on the tools, these hackers may have gained access after 2013. Snowden's ego can't accept the possibility that all of this is completely unrelated to anything he did. In any event, the tools are extremely dangerous and our reverse engineers are poring over the info now to measure the impact for our clients. |
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Based on the tools, these hackers may have gained access after 2013. Snowden's ego can't accept the possibility that all of this is completely unrelated to anything he did. In any event, the tools are extremely dangerous and our reverse engineers are poring over the info now to measure the impact for our clients. Quoted:
Based on the tools, these hackers may have gained access after 2013. Snowden's ego can't accept the possibility that all of this is completely unrelated to anything he did. In any event, the tools are extremely dangerous and our reverse engineers are poring over the info now to measure the impact for our clients. I read that the other way. The squatter lost access because TAO could not afford to assume the server in question was not compromised, which would presumably never have happened had Snowden not released mountains of data unrelated to domestic operations. He's playing both sides of the coin. |
| Equation Group stuff overwrites hard disk firmware, for the ultimate persistence. There is literally no safe electronic transmission anymore. Exploits for TOR (Firefox 17), even discounting the whole running TOR exit nodes thing. Encryption keys captured on boot, can't be erased, no way to read HD firmware to know if it's compromised. It's totally fucking ugly. |
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Equation Group stuff overwrites hard disk firmware, for the ultimate persistence. There is literally no safe electronic transmission anymore. Exploits for TOR (Firefox 17), even discounting the whole running TOR exit nodes thing. Encryption keys captured on boot, can't be erased, no way to read HD firmware to know if it's compromised. It's totally fucking ugly. English please. Does this mean we're all tracked at all times? |
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English please. Does this mean we're all tracked at all times? Quoted:
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Equation Group stuff overwrites hard disk firmware, for the ultimate persistence. There is literally no safe electronic transmission anymore. Exploits for TOR (Firefox 17), even discounting the whole running TOR exit nodes thing. Encryption keys captured on boot, can't be erased, no way to read HD firmware to know if it's compromised. It's totally fucking ugly. English please. Does this mean we're all tracked at all times? I still doubt they can track everyone, it's just too massive, but if you're in their sights? No chance, pen and paper, and one time pads are the only secure comms on the planet. I'm no IT type, just parroting what I've read, and I understand enough to understand some of it. I was reading about this from kapersky's site, an anti-virus vendor. |
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I still doubt they can track everyone, it's just too massive, but if you're in their sights? No chance, pen and paper, and one time pads are the only secure comms on the planet. I'm no IT type, just parroting what I've read, and I understand enough to understand some of it. I was reading about this from kapersky's site, an anti-virus vendor. Quoted:
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Equation Group stuff overwrites hard disk firmware, for the ultimate persistence. There is literally no safe electronic transmission anymore. Exploits for TOR (Firefox 17), even discounting the whole running TOR exit nodes thing. Encryption keys captured on boot, can't be erased, no way to read HD firmware to know if it's compromised. It's totally fucking ugly. English please. Does this mean we're all tracked at all times? I still doubt they can track everyone, it's just too massive, but if you're in their sights? No chance, pen and paper, and one time pads are the only secure comms on the planet. I'm no IT type, just parroting what I've read, and I understand enough to understand some of it. I was reading about this from kapersky's site, an anti-virus vendor. I've read where some think it's more of a panopticon. And then others say literally every microchip is spying on you. I tend to think the later after Petraeus' comments on household appliances. I don't understand any of it. |
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Snowden says outright that SOP would have been to move everything to different servers when he revealed what they were doing.
It has nothing to do with him, he's just speculating on the who, how, and why. The upshot of this material, is that we'll find that the NSA has been when they didn't belong, bathing in information they shouldn't have for a VERY long time. |
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That and a bitcoin crash is gonna ding resale |