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I'm sure the Israelis care that their fighter jets and drones use crypto that can be trivially broken with current computing power? It also of course plays int
by revelation 11y ago
I'm sure the Israelis care that their fighter jets and drones use crypto that can be trivially broken with current computing power?
It also of course plays into the whole fix vs exploit debate. Should the NSA inform on weak crypto or subvert it for their own purposes? What if its crypto used by a military partner? Where lies the greater public value?
- tptacek 11y agoThe IDF absolutely knows that their old drone video feeds were insecure. They didn't need The Intercept to tell them that. As for your second question, there is no actual debate about whether NSA should hoard/exploit or "fix" vulnerabilities in foreign signals intelligence. Their charter is to exploit. That's what SIGINT is. The debate is whether NSA should be required to fix vulnerable infrastructure when that infrastructure is used by US commercial infrastructure. That's not what's happening here.
- revelation 11y agoSo since they knew, there is no harm? Your second point seems to miss that whatever the foreigners are using may be a popular choice for naturals as well. (Notice the US selling F-16 abroad only to then having to break their video stream. At least the British don't sell missiles that they can't deactivate when coming their way)