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> The NSA has issued a statement denying the report. In an email to Ars, NSA spokesperson Vanee VInes provided this official statement: “NSA was not aware of th
by ENOTTY 7y ago
> The NSA has issued a statement denying the report. In an email to Ars, NSA spokesperson Vanee VInes provided this official statement: “NSA was not aware of the recently identified vulnerability in OpenSSL, the so-called Heartbleed vulnerability, until it was made public in a private-sector cybersecurity report. Reports that say otherwise are wrong.”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/nsa-used-heartbleed-nearly-from-the-start-report-claims/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/nsa-u...
- luxuryballs 7y agoRiiight, Snowden even said in Citizen Four that they claim their access is going dark but in reality it just keeps getting better and better. Oh and don’t forget James Clapper, who TOLD CONGRESS that they weren’t collecting American’s phone records, or at least “not wittingly”. Don’t mind if I tinfoil hat a little bit but I wouldn’t be surprised if “Intel” put that in there just for them.
- thaumaturgy 7y agoOh. Are we still taking NSA's statements at face value post-Snowden?
- LeoPanthera 7y agoThey're at least as valuable as Bloomberg's anonymous sources. You can't choose which sources you trust more just because they agree with your pre-existing beliefs.
- thephyber 7y agoI'd rather the PR statement be added to the discussion, even if not all readers trust it.
- burtonator 7y agoWhat's the legality of using a vulnerability to monitor someone if you have a warrant? Seems like it would still be illegal.
- inlined 7y agoParallel construction can hide that illegal surveillance ever happened.
- jlgaddis 7y agoYou mean like when FBI got warrants to exploit Tor users?
- cm2187 7y agoSecret services are in the business of exactly doing illegal things on behalf of the state. I think there is pretty much nothing in the daily business of the CIA or the NSA that wouldn’t land an ordinary citizen in jail. Whether it is to convince foreign officials to leak information, or bribe them, or plot a coup, or assassinate enemies of the state, or intercept some communications, etc. This is no different from any other secret service in the world. The NSA is no more guilty than a fox in the henhouse is guilty of being a fox.
- thephyber 7y agoThe answer to the question probably depends on unfettered access to all of the Executive Orders (and Decisions and Memos) and White House Counsel interpretations of existing law. We mere mortals will likely never know.