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For someone outside the USA, a targeted attack by the NSA is no different than a targeted attack by anyone else. They are breaking the law, and you are allowed
by cesarb 9y ago
For someone outside the USA, a targeted attack by the NSA is no different than a targeted attack by anyone else. They are breaking the law, and you are allowed and supposed to defend against them. If you are within the USA, however, they can use things like these National Security Letters which you are not allowed to go against.
- geofft 9y agoThis is incorrect for a few reasons: you can certainly defend against NSLs, even those that you can't defend against are targeted (see the ones Twilio received), they're from the FBI and not the NSA, and as hackers the NSA is more skilled and more well-funded than most other attackers you're defending against.
- mirimir 9y agoThe NSA does have lots of skilled hackers. But so do other national TLAs. And there are many freelance hackers.
- Feniks 9y agoMost countries will happily throw anyone under the bus if the US intelligence services ask them too. Besides if you're doing something the NSA doesn't like local law enforcement probably won't like it either.
- mirimir 9y agoMost countries, yes. But some countries, clearly no. Snowden is still in Russia, for example. And China typically doesn't cooperate with the NSA and its friends.