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Re:Hacks Raise Fear Over N.S.A.’s Hold on Cyberweapons by wu-ikkyu on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:36AM (#14663153)
A defensive response would be to inform major vendors of our own infrastructure (i.e. Microsoft, Cisco) of the gaping holes in their systems, instead of leaving them open for the world to attack.
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Re:Hacks Raise Fear Over N.S.A.’s Hold on Cyberweapons by killjoywashere on Thursday June 29, 2017 @10:11AM (#14663436)
I can name at least one netsec guy who attributes his entire team's existence to the NSA calling his employer and doing exactly that.
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Re:Hacks Raise Fear Over N.S.A.’s Hold on Cyberweapons by sillysaurus3 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @10:21AM (#14663503)
Right. It's a false dichotomy that the NSA doesn't do that and needs to disarm itself. There's a happy middle ground where people don't attack us because they're worried about our retaliation and we also improve our own defenses.
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Re:Hacks Raise Fear Over N.S.A.’s Hold on Cyberweapons by wu-ikkyu on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:16PM (#14665600)
Sounds like that netsec guy's team serves military customers then?
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Re:Hacks Raise Fear Over N.S.A.’s Hold on Cyberweapons by killjoywashere on Sunday July 02, 2017 @12:41AM (#14680928)
No, they do design work for consumer products.

But good job reading my prior comments :)

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Re:Hacks Raise Fear Over N.S.A.’s Hold on Cyberweapons by wu-ikkyu on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:07PM (#14706877)
What type of consumer products? And I'm not sure what comments you're referring to.
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