The most recent slew of attacks comes from an exploit that Akamai calls “EternalSilence” in a nod to the NSA-developed “Eternal” family of malicious code injections.
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Yet another case where a U.S. spy agency is hurting its own citizens. Between outright incompetence, such as ignoring warnings about the Boston Marathon bomber, to culpability, like the Las Vagas mass shooting, our spy agencies are a clear and present danger to the public.
Agency executives and their sycophant bureaucrats put their interests and careers first. They don’t have much fear or incentive to do otherwise.
Standards for accountability, professional integrity and performance expectations have to start at the top and be enforced down through the cabinet members and be driven into the executive branch bureaucracies. The problem is, no one in government is ever held accountable for anything.