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It's a shoddy story. Quote: "Our sources told us the hackers had gained access giving them the ability to intercept ALL INTERNET TRAFFIC going to several countr
by coretx 7y ago
It's a shoddy story. Quote: "Our sources told us the hackers had gained access giving them the ability to intercept ALL INTERNET TRAFFIC going to several countries in the Middle East" Way back, I used to work with dissidents/journo's/academics against censorship and surveillance at various countries. All but Turkey where easy because I recall that it was the military being in full control; playing with BGP among other things. This makes the quote a bit awkward. Why would they gain abilities already possessed & put their cards open on the table ?
- luckylion 7y agoIf they had access to the undersea cable(s), that would certainly be different than having the ability to fiddle with (generally detectable and attributable) BGP attacks. My money is on this being similar to the leaks of tapes where a bunch of high ranking Turkish military & members of the administration were discussing false-flag attacks from Syria to have a reason to invade, basically the US feeling they have exhausted their diplomatic channels to Ankara and dropping pieces of intel into the wild to get Turkey to stop what they are doing.
- coretx 7y ago# The "attack" level of sophistication does not befit a state actor. # The Reuters article mentions 2 British and one US security _officials_ # Same Reuters article states that GCHQ and US equivalent declined inquiry. ( Mind bullet #1. ) # Turkey states there has been no data ex-filtration; sources do not mention serious damage on either side. The most simple explanation is usually true, so I think a security firm like NCC group ( GCHQ still holds a stake in them ) is creating waves for business.
- luckylion 7y agoRe "state actor", while reading the headline I figured "oh, they would have called it 'state actor' if it was believed to be Russian or Chinese", but reading the article, they may have chosen not to use that term also because it wasn't MIT but some loosely affiliated patriotic group. Given that the borders between state and non-state are very fluent in Turkey, there may also be multiple things being attributed. Still very much possible that it's FUD/PR, there's likely information, misinformation, PR and news hyping in any such report, with degrees of each varying.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoYou said the simplest explanation is usually true, then peddled a nonsense conspiracy theory. I don’t think you understand what NCC does at all.