Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System

Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by bigbugbag on Sunday April 16, 2017 @09:57PM (#14128767)

So basically what you say is that students can get diplomas in computer science and several countries can afford to spend $100,000. This hardly makes a case for any country being able to match the US capability and exposed acts of hacking.

I sincerely doubt that a country could pull out a stuxnet with a couple $100,000 0day and a hundreds of people with computer science diplomas. There's a reason stuxnet was almost instantly pinned on the US and that reason is that apart from maybe China and Russia (who seem to have fun hacking the US and not getting caught or exposed) no other country can match the US.

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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by sigmar on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:01PM (#14128779)

>This hardly makes a case for any country being able to match the US capability and exposed acts of hacking.

No one is making that case

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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by ionised on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:42AM (#14146569)

> his hardly makes a case for any country being able to match the US capability and exposed acts of hacking

This is bizarre to witness.

It's amost like as an American you need to be safe in the perception that the US is #1 always, even in truly terrible things.

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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by code_duck on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:18AM (#14129511)

The US also happens to be the home and origin of most of the global software industry.

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