NSA's Malware Methods Outed in Latest Leak

NBC ^ | March 12, 2014 | Devin Coldewey

[Aqua Buddhist]

The latest report from the top-secret documents that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden made off with describes the agency's efforts to infect and monitor PCs much in the way ordinary hackers do. The methods aren't particularly original, but the scale of the operations is huge.

Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald reported on the revelations in great detail, but the takeaway is fairly straightforward. The NSA is employing hacking tools that will sound familiar to anyone in the security field: browser exploits, man-in-the-middle attacks and plain old spam....

[Aqua Buddhist]

Our government is a bunch of common criminals.

[no-to-illegals]

obots

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NSA ping

[No One Special]

Is Fast Eddie feeling neglected?

[usconservative]

Our government is a bunch of common criminals.

Who deserve nothing less than arrest, trial, conviction and execution of sentence appropriate for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America, for which each and every one of the corrupt slimeballs took an oath to defend but ended up shredding it to pieces.

Speaking of shredding, there's this scene out of the movie Fargo that comes to mind after suffering through this brutal winter here in the upper Midwest ......

[Orangedog]

I love how these threads bring out all the flag waving hypocrites who will prattle on other threads about freedom and the constitution but call for the tar and feathering of the guy who exposed their government blatantly violating said constitution like it was a drunk prom date.

[hoosiermama]

Thanks for ping—bump

[Yaelle]

Not me. We pay for this government. I want to know everything they do “for the people” or is isn’t “of the people.”

[Aqua Buddhist]

I love how these threads bring out all the flag waving hypocrites who will prattle on other threads about freedom and the constitution but call for the tar and feathering of the guy who exposed their government blatantly violating said constitution like it was a drunk prom date.

Yep; I've already gotten some comments questioning my patriotism....

[Rodamala]

Oh, so those “NSA/DOJ/FBI Warning” ransom viruses I got while watching Duke coed porn was legit? Crap... I never sent them the $300 they wanted... I think I am in trouble.

[4rcane]

government hate competition in criminal behavior

[TigersEye]

I have always held that hackers and spammer should be shot and thrown in a dumpster. The fact that it’s being done by the NSA doesn’t alter my feelings about that.

[driftdiver]

Much of what is classified is marked that way to keep the American people from knowing.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

By this time, NSA should have mitigated anything that would cause operational problems.

[Vendome]

And this why I employ a variety of methods to deal with malware and run em all at the same time.

[Vendome]

They should be shot or “Fargo’d”

[FreeInWV]

Does it p1ss anyone else off that you gotta buy expensive malware/virus protection, firewalls, the newest routers and upgraded PCs and OS’s, and spend hours troubleshooting suspicious programs/ip’s just to function on a computer? Its a trillion dollar industry! Sometimes I wonder if we are doing all this so their spyware runs faster on our computers!!

I should send them a bill!

[zeugma]

Does it p1ss anyone else off that you gotta buy expensive malware/virus protection, firewalls, the newest routers and upgraded PCs and OS’s, and spend hours troubleshooting suspicious programs/ip’s just to function on a computer? Its a trillion dollar industry! Sometimes I wonder if we are doing all this so their spyware runs faster on our computers!!

 

The worst part is, you're having to do all that to protect yourself from criminals in your own government.

[ScottinVA]

This government is chock-full of people who need to hang from lampposts. By his is truly the most corrupt government in American history.