NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks With Malicious Software 264
rtoz writes "The American intelligence service — NSA — infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information, documents provided by former NSA-employee Edward Snowden show."
NSA's relationship to AV companies (Score:4, Interesting)
Did the NSA force AV companies to not track the NSA virus, then keep it "legally" secret?
These are the spasms before the end of empire (Score:5, Interesting)
The US is choosing the path of aggression instead of the path
of civilized behavior.
This is a strategy designed by fools. If the fools responsible were the
only ones who would pay for their crimes that wouldn't be so bad.
But every American will pay for what a tiny minority of American swine have done.
By the way, before you start in with your xenophobic redneck moron responses, I AM an American,
and I see what is coming and I do not like it one bit. When the rest of the world has had enough
of the US overstepping its bounds, all the US military power won't make a bit of difference.
Economic sanctions alone can and will bring the US to its knees. If you don't believe this is
possible, you need to read more history.
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Year Zero (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Business is business (Score:4, Interesting)
It's reasonable to expect every intelligence agency to spy on anyone they can.
Perhaps as regards governments the hypocrisy should be dropped, and caught spies simply traded for other caught spies as was Cold War custom. Business IS business, and trusting anyone, even "allies" (whatever that means) can be childish especially if they are penetrated by enemy operatives.
How much we wish to restrain internal spying is another matter.
Nothing the NSA has been doing is reasonable.
Re:Act of war. (Score:5, Interesting)
Wasn't this exactly what the USA declared to be considered an act of war, that would justify retaliation with conventional weapons?
Exactly, all members of the NSA are guilty of high treason. Think about it, over the last several decades they have worked quietly behind the scenes to deliberately weaken all encryption algorithms and computer/electronic security.
Every time a hospital or the electrical grid gets hacked and taken out of service, every time a rival hacks in and steals classified information from a government computer or trade secrets from a corporate one, every time someone's identity gets stolen, every time someone's computer gets infected by a virus, the NSA directly contributed to the ease by which this was done. That is IMHO directly supplying aid and comfort to enemies of the people.
Re:SELinux? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt. (Score:3, Interesting)
The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt, and the response of U.S. citizens is to make foolish jokes.
Well, the 2% who give a shit enough to crack jokes are cracking jokes, for they likely know it's far too late to do fuck-all about it.
You're not hearing from the other 98% who don't give a shit, and helped create this mess, one obedient sheep at a time.
Re:The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt. (Score:5, Interesting)
That's what the news media did with "Watergate" and the Ellsburg Paper. It resulted in the resignation of POTUS Richard M. Nixon.
I've thought about that a lot lately. I remember how the country was at a standstill during that time. I wonder if Watergate would even merit being published currently, let alone force a resignation.