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Whether it was intentional backdoor or not, NSA must've had a field day with it by now.
by higherpurpose 13y ago
Whether it was intentional backdoor or not, NSA must've had a field day with it by now.
- rdl 13y agoIn general, NSA is not my most serious threat (in terms of actual harm; they are the most powerful by far though) -- I agree they overreach, and for some people are a serious threat, but for me my primary concerns are Chinese/other foreign intel (who are documented as going after industrial/economic material much more than NSA) and independent/criminal/etc. types. The scary thing is the bar is so low; even I could turn this into a nice weaponized thing to go after the long tail of people who don't upgrade, for the next months. The "diode" etc. infrastructure NSA built isn't that different from botnet C&C or the kind of relays people have when hacking.
- sosborn 13y ago> NSA is not my most serious threat I wish more people understood this. Not to let NSA off the hook (what they are doing is awful), but the threat posed by the NSA is a higher-level down the road/slippery slope threat. There are other more immediate and real dangers out there that are actively trying to steal whatever they can find.
- MatthiasP 13y agoIt also very much depends on which side of the Atlantic you are living on.
- el_muchacho 13y agoWhat I would like more people to understand is, the NSA planting backdoors into everyone's accounts and software makes everyone less safe to both interior and exterior attacks. So no, it's not a case of NSA spying being a lesser threat to eastern spying, it's a case of the NSA punching holes in your walls letting everyone see what's inside.