Further ties of NSA to Equation Group hackers

Re:Further ties of NSA to Equation Group hackers by Zigurd on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @10:44AM (#9184307)

It's a big deal because of the resources being applied to this, and the lack of resources applied to keeping data private and secure.

Of course you can't prevent efforts to break into systems. But you can spend enough resources on making it difficult and fruitless that it is reasonably certain that our data can't be accessed by spooks of any nation.

We get what we pay for. Right now we spend vastly more on surveillance than on privacy and security. Guess which one we have more of?

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Re:Further ties of NSA to Equation Group hackers by venomsnake on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @11:04AM (#9184415)

The resources that sabotage unwanted nuclear programs ... are resources well spent. This part of NSA is caring the mandate. Highly targeted, highly efficient, no collateral damage, no dragnets, delivering results.

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Re:Further ties of NSA to Equation Group hackers by kiba on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @11:15AM (#9184481)

Yesterday's legit NSA operation and toolkit is tomorrow's cybercrime and hacking toolkits.

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Re:Further ties of NSA to Equation Group hackers by LLWM on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @12:39PM (#9184959)

So this is yet another NASA-like example of military spending driving research that eventually gets repurposed for civilian use? Great!

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