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All of this sounds like excellent operational technology. I don't understand all the outrage here. If you sit down and ask yourself, "What kind of technology wo
by minimax 13y ago
All of this sounds like excellent operational technology. I don't understand all the outrage here. If you sit down and ask yourself, "What kind of technology would I build if I wanted to infiltrate government/military networks of technologically sophisticated adversaries?", this is basically what you'd end up with. This is exactly the sort of thing I would expect the NSA to spend their time on.
- akjj 13y agoExactly. So much of the article is about capabilities with little context for how broadly it is applied. Even the "millions" in the title is just about the server capacity for managing the infected computers, and later they admit that the actual number of computers is an order of magnitude less.
- summerdown2 13y agoI don't think the majority of people are outraged that a spy organisation spies. The things that have got most people rattled are: a) The breadth of the spying, including many, many innocent people. b) The long-term storage of data, likewise. c) Deliberate weakening of security standards we all rely upon. d) The fact it's all happening without democratic debate. If instead of the above, they threw innocent people's data away, targeted their intrusions, engaged with the democratic mechanisms, and used their expertise to improve internet security, a lot of people would be much happier.