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Alternatively, news about hacking that you read, including their primary sources like Google/Microsoft/FireEye/whatever, usually suppress news about hacking by
by oefrha 5y ago
Alternatively, news about hacking that you read, including their primary sources like Google/Microsoft/FireEye/whatever, usually suppress news about hacking by U.S. and allies. IIRC last year Google publicly announced a zero day actively exploited by the U.S. which was considered highly unusual, since apparently they usually just patch it without fuzz. The article was discussed here but I can’t find it now.
- fomine3 5y agoThat's why Kaspersky is important. I wish they survive.
- bee_rider 5y agoThis thread was kicked off by discussion about ransomware hacking, though. I'm sure US intelligence agencies get up to all sorts of no good, and I'm sure our news is less likely to report on it, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent ransomware industry in the US (and the news has no reason to cover for petty hacking criminals in the US). Actually I don't see a ton of news about national-security related hacking by Russia.
- oefrha 5y agoOh, TFA is about nation states so I was talking about that. Asymmetric commercial hacking is pretty easy to explain: hacking foreign entities is safer than hacking domestic ones in terms of risk exposure, and hacking entities in countries richer than yours is more attractive than the other way round.
- actionfromafar 5y agoHow about non-nation states, such as the US?
- dhosek 5y agoPedantry is seldom useful or interesting.