Re:ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
by ryanmarsh on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:32PM
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It's clear why they're penetrating those networks and it's at least arguable they have cause too.
My comment was about the security house of cards surrounding the fiat banking system.
Re:ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
by lovich on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:32PM
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What's illegal or not changes with political winds, and if they can access one part of the system the rest is now circumspect
Re:ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
by nickpsecurity on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:51PM
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It really doesn't. Spy agencies have been collecting economic and military intelligence on foreign countries and companies since their inception. It was a NSA apologist that correctly noted that each country with a spy agency makes it illegal for people to spy on them, complains about it internationally, and then funds an agency to spy on everyone else for their own benefit. Regardless of what laws or technicalities say, all these countries with spy agencies want foreign spying to happen & legally endorse it by creating said agencies. This should be expected.
Even if they made it illegal, I still wouldn't trust them as they'd try to do something to get an edge on negotiations. That something would be illegal activity they outsourced to mercenary organizations or partnered with nations with spy organizations with some benefit promised back to them. For example, nearly all of Europe has intelligence sharing agreements per Snowden leaks with the very agency (NSA) they're publicly griping about. Only 3 didn't in whatever deal that was: Switzerland, Iceland, and one other I can't remember.
My quick skim shows they're gaining information about transactions in Middle East and Panama. One is essentially a hotbed of competing interests among imperialists and terrorism. The U.S. invaded two countries over there. There's proxy war going on in another. Far as Panama, it's one of leading spots for rich people, threatening or just tax-dodging, to set up offshore accounts, companies, and so on. They use it to hide their transactions. FinCEN has been fighting for access to tax haven data for years. No surprise NSA is monitoring illegal, money moving given targets of interests might be involved in it in that specific place.