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Buddy I've got news for you if you think that Russia and China are more virtuous on the internet than the U.S.
by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Buddy I've got news for you if you think that Russia and China are more virtuous on the internet than the U.S.
- taminka 3y agoi'm even less virtuous than russia or china, yet i can't spy on you (once again, it's a combination of current technical capability, concentration of current and early important technologies being developed in your jurisdiction, concentration of current and popular technologies being developed in your jurisdiction, etc)
- pphysch 3y agoChina and Russia definitely do cybercrime, but: > In its release, WikiLeaks said "Marble" was used to insert foreign language text into the malware to mask viruses, trojans and hacking attacks, making it more difficult for them to be tracked to the CIA and to cause forensic investigators to falsely attribute code to the wrong nation. The source code revealed that Marble had examples in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Persian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7 The government and media pretends that attribution is a slam-dunk when it virtually never is. On the other hand, there are big career benefits to discovering the next "Chinese" malware vs. stumbling upon some US/EU script kiddy nonsense that included Chinese characters as a prank/red herring. There is incentive to misattribute & sensationalize. I would wager that ~100% of CIA/NSA malware (or any state actor, really) has a plausible red herring cover. It would be foolish not to.