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It's interesting that the Russian state relies on these multi-party procedures (security service contacts telco to cut off service to initiate attack) rather th
by pigscantfly 10y ago
It's interesting that the Russian state relies on these multi-party procedures (security service contacts telco to cut off service to initiate attack) rather than unilateral interception, which as the author says, might not only be simpler but also less detectable.
- nxzero 10y agoJust because the teleco said something happened doesn't mean that's what happened. Lot of other ways even an average attacker could due this if they had the resources to do it, and unlikely that a service provider would tell a customer what happen; they could be the attacker testing the systems.
- frozenport 10y agoThey wanted the history which might not be available in a intercept of current data.