Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware

Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by coliveira on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:50PM (#26974022)

The CIA has a budget for lying and cheating that is an order of magnitude larger than anything else other countries have. I always assume that they are doing more damage than what we know about.

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by stjohnswarts on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:56PM (#26974762)

I highly doubt if they have an order of magnitude more than China "budget" for CIA type activities. Probably more but not 10X, maybe 2X

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by mhermher on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:43PM (#26975179)

you can use military spending as a proxy.

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by Stupulous on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:24PM (#26976774)

I don't think you can, I expect different countries to have a wide variety of intelligence budgets as a percentage of military. But, if you did this anyway for the US and China, you would get 3.1x, closer to 2x than 10x.

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by xyzzy123 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:30AM (#26977482)

Also difficult to know if the CIA gets as much spying done per dollar spent.

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by loceng on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:34AM (#26979049)

You could use investment in companies that the CCP has investment in (and generating revenue for them; which also acts as taking revenue/fuel away from competing government types/ecosystems) as a proxy as well.

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by bostonsre on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:49PM (#26976563)

How do you get to those numbers exactly? You really think Russia and China are choir boys?

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