[Lazamataz]

Are you as blown away as I am that the NSA and FBI would actually publish a report alleging hacking with the sole piece of evidence being the same piece of code that you’ve pulled off of the kind of compromised web hosts that individuals and small businesses have been routinely dealing with for over a decade?

I'm a professional in the field; this report makes me very worried that we are -- essentially -- unprotected.

Good God man, they even cited XSS as a potential vector of the attack.

XSS!!!!!

[thoughtomator]

> I’m a professional in the field; this report makes me very worried that we are — essentially — unprotected.

I came to that conclusion with the Snowden revelations. You can design the best possible IT security and it’s effectively not there with respect to anyone who knows one of the backdoors the NSA had built into common systems.

Thanks to the NSA, the only way to get real IT security is to code everything from scratch - including drivers, operating system, and all applications.