Re:Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hac...
by PaulHoule on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @12:06PM
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If you had access to that kind of information you wouldn't want to take advantage of it in any way that might become visible, because you'd get busted.
It's like how John Walker only sold month-old crypto keys from the US Navy to the Soviet Union
Had the USSR been decoding US Navy messages in real time, they might have used that information, making the US Navy suspicious about how the USSR knew what it did, and causing the leak to be exposed more quickly than it was.
Re:Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hac...
by sofixa on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:23AM
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That's a very old intelligence conundrum. Using enough intelligence to benefit you without exposing how much ( and potentially from where) you know is a very tough problem.
I think it’s safe to assume that if you’ve been owned for five years the hackers have access to whatever they want.
That’s more seniority than the average tech employee’s tenure at a company these days.
It's like how John Walker only sold month-old crypto keys from the US Navy to the Soviet Union
https://news.usni.org/2014/09/02/john-walker-spy-ring-u-s-na...
Had the USSR been decoding US Navy messages in real time, they might have used that information, making the US Navy suspicious about how the USSR knew what it did, and causing the leak to be exposed more quickly than it was.