Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers

Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by _n_b_ on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:37AM (#16535521)

This seems like something completely sensible and even predictable for the NSA to do.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:18AM (#16536126)

Yeah, of all things to leak... even pre-Snowden, this is what I would expect the NSA to do, because watching other countries' intelligence agencies is what they're supposed to do.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by rch on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:23AM (#16536957)

Agreed. The news here is that they can't stop hemorrhaging information about their activities.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by meowface on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:13PM (#16542013)

I imagine the morale there right now must be completely in the dumps. The volume and frequency of critical leaks and breaches is pretty ridiculous.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by ryanlol on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:29AM (#16536180)

You say this like it’s not obvious. Just because what they’re doing is OK doesn’t make it uninteresting. There are lots of posts on HN about completely sensible things.

Why does the NSA need defending this badly anyway?

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by chockZ on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @09:49AM (#16536710)

I think people are conditioned to associate "leaks" with "scandals" (especially when it comes to the three letter agencies), when in actuality this "leak" is just a revelation of completely reasonable and expected activities.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by ryanlol on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:21AM (#16536938)

Isn't it inherently scandalous for intelligence agencies to misplace this sort of information?

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by jtbayly on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:37AM (#16537065)

Yes it is. As somebody above said, the news here is that they can’t keep anything secret.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by brudgers on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:36AM (#16537536)

I take the comment as an explanation...not a claim that the world as it is is the the way it ought to be.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by ryanlol on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @12:21PM (#16537922)

Does it really need explaining? The sky is blue, the NSA isn't 100% evil.

It just feels really out of place under an article focusing on the technical side of things, not accusing the NSA of anything nefarious.

Despite neither the article or any of the comments here suggesting there's anything wrong with the NSA activities being discussed, several users felt the need to preemptively stand up the agency:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16537479

I don't know exactly what to make of it, but this kind of behavior just seems strange to me.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by nerdponx on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:27AM (#16536171)

It's cool to see how it is done.

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Re:Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers by conmarap on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:41AM (#16537567)

I was about to comment the exact same thing. It's known for years, now, that they do that. This practice is outlined in the book "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It," in which the author explains how the NSA has a profile on all (know) Chinese hackers.

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