Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
by FDSGSG on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:39AM
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We wouldn't know if China, Russia or whoever could identify specific US operators, only the US plays silly indictment games like this.
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Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
by alwayseasy on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:27PM
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Russia did reveal at least one NSA TAO operative through their ShadowBrokers puppet account.
Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
by FDSGSG on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:28PM
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At least 4. But it's really not at all obvious that Shadow Brokers was Russia.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-YhLDDrFIPlVVXG3EkpA...
Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
by alwayseasy on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:59AM
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I don't see where your link points to this and I mean it's pretty obvious the Shadow Brokers were aligned with foreign policy interests of the Russian government. If it was another adversary, I don't see why they worked so hard to benefit mostly Russia.
Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
by FDSGSG on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:52AM
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>I don't see where your link points to this
Recently there's been a lot of speculation that Shadow Brokers were in fact the "second source". That may or may not be true.
>I mean it's pretty obvious the Shadow Brokers were aligned with foreign policy interests of the Russian government
It's really not. Unless everything anti-US fits that mould, but then we'd have a plenty of other governments to suspect too.
Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
by president on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:53AM
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Why is indicting foreign nationals for hacking American citizens' data "silly"?
Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
by siv- on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:48PM
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It doesn't achieve much, it increases the risk of revealing methods and sources. It also puts US cyber security personnel at greater risk, some of whom have spoken out against the practice.
Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
by jessaustin on Monday February 10, 2020 @07:39PM
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For one thing, because there's no reason to suspect that any particular accusation in these indictments is true.