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The one thing that might be of some small comfort to others is the fact that at least the NSA didn't know about this bug. If they had, there wouldn't be any ta
by diminoten 13y ago
The one thing that might be of some small comfort to others is the fact that at least the NSA didn't know about this bug.
If they had, there wouldn't be any talk of HTTPS being a barrier in their leaked presentations.
That said, all of that encrypted traffic they've got stored up can now, thanks to this bug, be decrypted.
- maxerickson 13y agoI would think that when they discover a superpower they compartmentalize that information. You could make the inference that, if they did have it, they were not making broad use of it.
- mpyne 13y agoThey did compartmentalize. They still do. That's why having an insider with sysadmin access and prestige for social engineering purposes is so dangerous.
- maxerickson 13y agoYeah. We should still take Rumsfeld's advice about what we don't know.
- mpyne 13y agoSure, the advice is still as sound as it ever was. So was the advice about going to war with the Army you had, not the one you'd wished you had.
- sjs382 13y agoIt could have been discovered them between the presentation and now.
- pdw 13y agoThe bug was introduced in version 1.0.1, released 14 Mar 2012. Aren't most of Snowden's documents older than that? And we certainly don't know what the NSA has been doing since Snowden collected his files late 2012 / beginning 2013.