Snowden on the NSA being hacked
Perhaps you heard about this already.
If not, here is a quick recap:
hackers calling themselves the Shadow Brokers have collected NSA-created malware from a staging server run by the Equation Group, an internal hacking team. The Shadow Brokers published two chunks of data, one “open” chunk and another encrypted file containing the “best files” that they will sell for at least $1 million. Wikileaks has said they already own the “auction” files and will publish them in “due course.”
They’ve also released images of the file tree containing a script kiddie-like trove of exploits ostensibly created and used by the NSA as well as a page calling out cyber warriors and “Wealthy Elites.” The page also contains links to the two files, both encrypted...
First, we need to understand what these files are and what they do. These are hacking tools including RATs – or remote access Trojans – and exploits designed to attack web and file servers.
Most Americans, especially those on TOP, start clutching their pearls whenever someone mentions that hackers from North Korea, or China, or Russia hacked servers in the United States.
Americans seem to be completely unaware that the most aggressive state-sponsored hackers in the world live near Washington D.C.
Or maybe Americans don't care because we're the "good guys".
Either way, this hack was different. Because while other hacks from Russia, like the DNC hack, may or may not have been state-sponsored, this hack of the NSA obviously was state-sponsored.
Edward Snowden explains.
Or to put it another way.
Computer security researchers around the world are now reviewing computer networks for these tools. And wherever they find this leaked code, they'll know the NSA was spying.
The United States currently claims the moral high ground and censures China, Iran, North Korea and Russia for hacking Americans. But it could soon be caught doing the same to others.
If you keep your eye out you'll be seeing evidence of this popping up soon.
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Fascinating - thank you n/t
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Do the Russians need to hack into NSA computers?
Right after the Snowden revelations, was reading how private contractors were used to do security clearances, and how they majorly botched them. Given that Snowden was a middle level programmer who could access almost anything and the lax clearances, the Russians would need only one person to penetrate the NSA, or given the number of private contractors, get one to turn. I am convinced that at least the Russians already knew everything Snowden knew plus more. All they have to do is turn to an inside source and get any software. But then again, maybe the hacking is meant to get us off the trail of any insiders.
Multiple sleights-of-hand are possible.
Is NSA sowing distrust and mayhem now?
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Of course they are
the current harmonic trend across all MSM is that it's all Russia's fault (and by default, Trumps fault).
Like, for instance, those who rigged past elections... and...
... the primaries just past...?
Wouldn't it be "embarrassing" if inside hackers were traced back to the DNC or the Clinton Foundation from states where voter registrations were deleted or changed? Or to the Clinton Foundation server or to a new server in their basement...?
Where was his server relocated when they set up her server when she became SoS? Colorado? Wyoming? I just read that not long ago or heard it on a YouTube video, I remember that.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
... Or to put it another way
Oh, boy, reruns!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/29/der-spiegel-nsa-hacking-un...
http://www.ehacking.net/2014/12/nsa-spied-on-companies-and-groups.html
http://phys.org/news/2015-05-nsa-hack-google-app.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/24/world/europe/europe-summit-nsa-surveillanc...
Now, just imagine the level of contempt and distrust world leaders will be feeling at the prospect of a President Clinton or Trump, rather than an honest, experienced, sane and sensible President Bernie, the one who actually did win the Dem primary and would have won the General in a landslide?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
What goes around comes around
What goes around comes around. Like drone warfare, cyber is affordable to practically any nation on earth. And anything the USA develops can be stolen and copied.
I suppose the only thing that is keeping us safe right now is the computer software equivalent of the Cold War mutual assured destruction (MAD) doctrine.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
I just think it's funny that the NSA was hacked.
Nothing, absolutely nothing is completely unhackable.
And if Wikileaks already has the stuff that is being auctioned off, probably others do, too.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
I wonder when
the owners of this country, and the world, will decide the internet is just a pain in their asses and unplug it.
They would lose a valuable tool to keep track of us
Look at Facebook
Since those Web-enabled uprisings like Tahrir Square, everyone
has streamlined versions of a kill switch to shut off access to specific areas or more broadly. Hillary's been vocal about the need to "tighten" the Internet in the name of security (of course), but almost certainly for tighter control of info that's allowed to get out to the rest of us and that we're allowed to share. Not a fan of anything resembling transparency, the Clintons and their cronies.
P.S. Many thanks for the info you bring us here, especially on economies and markets. Keep forgetting to express my appreciation.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
I wonder
if the empire is finally beginning to crack. See my first sig line courtesy of Dr. Cornel West.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
It's already cracked. Like the
fabled dinosaur the knowledge hasn't reached the brain yet. It will probably take arrests before they clearly register it.
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
Well, certainly the US
is doing a pretty good job of degrading itself in the eyes of the world. So at least the illusions are cracking. Americans will be the last to know.
Know what
NSA stands for?
"No Such Agency"
yuk, yuk
Love the Mass Effect reference.
The Shadow Brokers.