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Exfiltration is a problem. It's more difficult to exfil terabytes of individual citizen dossiers than ~2GB of malware, implants, tools, scripts, etc from classi
by daxorid 9y ago
Exfiltration is a problem. It's more difficult to exfil terabytes of individual citizen dossiers than ~2GB of malware, implants, tools, scripts, etc from classified and possibly even SCIF environments.
Or it could be more prosaic than that: Money. The market value of NSA tooling is likely far far higher than the threat assessments of Joe Blow Smith in Hoboken, NJ.
- godelski 9y agoI don't think the concern is Joe Smith. The concern is high level people who can easily be blackmailed. Or even just someone who works in a classified setting. The value of blackmailing a few political elites is extremely powerful and profitable. Or even people in big companies like FAANG.
- freeone3000 9y agoI don't think any blackmail would be effective at this point. When a man gets accused of molesting a teenager then gets elected to the Senate, I think the potential for blackmail has passed.