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As I recall, there wasn't a single thing in the leaks that wasn't already widely known in security circles. Hell, a few months before them I had IBM in my offic
by tiberious726 2y ago
As I recall, there wasn't a single thing in the leaks that wasn't already widely known in security circles. Hell, a few months before them I had IBM in my offices proudly telling me that they were the suppliers for the Utah datacenters.
I'm still pretty convinced the whole thing was a US operation, to shut up the people who would insist everyone who knew about these things was a crackpot. Could the current push for NIST 800-171/CMMC have really happened without Snowden, or something much worse?
- mdhb 2y agoI really can’t emphasise enough how wrong that interpretation is. It was hands down the worst intel failure by a considerable margin. Worse than the time they lost the name of every CIA officer in the OPM hack.
- tiberious726 2y agoWhat are some examples of things that were in the leaks that were actually new information? PRISM is basically the only thing the Utah datacenter could have been used for back then. Cisco firmware having backdoors wasn't even really considered to be on the crackpot side of things pre leaks. I remember people being surprised at the scope of their shipping-intercept program when the leaks were new, but that's about it. Didn't they lose all biometric info for all federal employees in the OPM hack? Fingerprints and retinal images (for those who had them) too?
- DANmode 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disclosures https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_di... Everyone can just keep reading until they find the parts they haven't heard about, now.