Re:Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech"
by maze-le on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:08AM
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>> To have reason to seriously consider them in your threat model, need to do something that encroaches on the interests of particular power centers.
Like building wind turbines?
[0]: https://fas.org/irp/program/process/rapport_echelon_en.pdf
All that said, I do suspect that we will hear more about surveillance from the various spook agencies (not just the NSA) being laundered to more mundane criminal cases over time. We know this happens with the DEA and FBI; we know the DEA feeds local law enforcement carefully laundered intelligence; I'm really curious about DHS, ICE and major-metro police agencies like the NYPD's relationships, possibly through what amount to cutouts.
[1] Interestingly, different people hold irreconcilable motivations for thinking that.
[2] Assuming away movie-plots, etc.