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>which is essentially limited to what the NSA does in the US. The NSA doesn't do field intelligence work, AFAIK, unlike CSIS. >This story sounds...weird. I do
by mcantelon 14y ago
>which is essentially limited to what the NSA does in the US.
The NSA doesn't do field intelligence work, AFAIK, unlike CSIS.
>This story sounds...weird. I doubt it is quite as he suspects it is.
It's weird, but I'm not sure who else other than CSIS would have the motivation to hack an activists computer so it sends data to CSIS-affiliated servers.
- corresation 14y agoThe author said "Hostnames that appear to belong to CSIS.". Reverse DNS should not be trusted. Saying that a hostname "appears to belong" to someone is a naive statement.
- strlen 14y agoIndeed, spoofing reverse DNS is not hard -- and spoofing reverse DNS to appear like an intelligence agency is straight out of every 1990s IRC script kiddie's cookbook.