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Wouldn't this fall under the remit (and expertise) of the NSA? I thought that the FBI were like Interpol - i.e. federal-level cops. The NSA being the technical
by radicalbyte 8y ago
Wouldn't this fall under the remit (and expertise) of the NSA? I thought that the FBI were like Interpol - i.e. federal-level cops. The NSA being the technical spooks (and the CIA being the meat-based spooks).
- e12e 8y agoI believe there's been a bit of a shake up since 90s - at the time secret service got the hacker beat, because: wirefraud. But also the FBI, because: felony crossing state borders. The nsa were signals intelligence first, but their civilian mandate had (has) to do with protecting national interests in the "signaling" world (ie: the Internet etc). Arguably they were never very good at that... ("Snowden", "crypto backdoor"...). But I believe "cyberspace" is now accepted as an actual thing, and so falls naturally under the FBI (cross border, spying on us soil) and police ("crime").