themeek

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by themeek 11y ago
It's more of a cyber shield for NGOs that align with US strategic objectives.
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by themeek 11y ago
Julian Assange is perfectly right in this case. Google is already very involved in geopolitics. Google Ideas is a way to protect US investments in culture export "civil society" apps.
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by themeek 11y ago
The United States Department of Defense is doubling down on investment in the tech sector for national security and strategic purposes. One of these investments is into something called "Civil Society Apps" - applications that sup
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by themeek 11y ago
What's interesting to me is how divergent your speculative threat model is from what Washington is talking about. How fully do your think your threat model addresses the scope of national security concerns of the United States?
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by themeek 11y ago
Thanks sideloader. Pretty damning anecdote about reporting on the arctic. Press coverage that happily glosses over international uncertainty and debate in favor of a national narrative and interests conclusively outs coverage for what it is
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by themeek 11y ago
Encryption is extremely hard to get right. Increasing key sizes does not matter if your scheme, protocol, padding, chaining mode, implementation, nonce values, randomness, key management, user interface, key agreement, key generation, IV ge
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by themeek 11y ago
Did they not track the brothers with their cell phones?
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by themeek 11y ago
No, that's not quite the claim I'm making. I'm making a strictly stronger claim - backed by the brunt of articles - which is that China was purposefully performing a counter-espionage operation that involved Google because Go
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by themeek 11y ago
I'm afraid this is heading the direction of 'let's define a backdoor'. What remains true is that China targeted a system built for the FBI to get unencrypted access to GMail systems and customer data that did not require
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by themeek 11y ago
:) Sorry I missed your point. Thanks for sharing and editing.
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by themeek 11y ago
Continue to read. You will find that this was the target of the operation. It was not the vector that allowed them to get in (not soley). It is usually the case that a successful breach gives very wide access, so I would suspect this as wel
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by themeek 11y ago
It is ironic in a certain sense. Comments here unfortunately were and are linking the two in a causal way rather than just pointing out the double standard. The point of these backdoor programs is that there is an asymmetry in how the vulne
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by themeek 11y ago
There's a lot to reply here and I'm not uniquely qualified to do it, but I figured I'd write something given the effort you've put into sharing your thoughts and feelings. With regard to the FBI hacking another agency -
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by themeek 11y ago
I understand this. Such a database would definitely be a juicy target. Concentrating backdoor keys and information is unwise. I'm not sure we want to base policy on something speculative like that. Agreed that conversations should be h
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by themeek 11y ago
The NK-SONY episode was undoubtedly NK or NK-sympathizers. The malware analysis from Fireeye is a good start for this (it was a variant of malware used by NK to target SK media outlets that run negative press against the regime, was compile
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by themeek 11y ago
:) Thanks good Canadian. Yes, I am speaking primary to a US audience and from my own experience as a US citizen. As a tangent - how is Canadian reporting overall? Is it reliable?
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by themeek 11y ago
"operation aurora fbi backdoor" https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
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by themeek 11y ago
There's other threads here were people suggest this. It seems pretty speculative to me that there's some large database with all of the mandated software backdoors and keys to get access to. And if it existed, I don't know th
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by themeek 11y ago
Even the Wikipedia article is pretty good. Honestly I would recommend Googling around for it. There's bound to be declassified aspects to the attacks you can trace down if you are dogged, but it's likely you'll find everythin
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by themeek 11y ago
This seems sort of speculative to me - at least too speculative to base (important) policy on. The way the US government would be likely to handle this situation is that they would recognize the threat and mandate that no such single databa
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by themeek 11y ago
It's likely that scare tactics and politics will use whatever justification they can to achieve their goals - including politicization of large media events.
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by themeek 11y ago
This is right, but it doesn't address my comment. Did this play a role in the breach? Almost certainly it did not.
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by themeek 11y ago
The US undoubtedly hacks China, though there's some forms of asymmetry whereby the US has more to lose. There's also a language and media bubble that filters out information and criticisms of the United States. These bi- and multi
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by themeek 11y ago
Computer Network Attack/Exploitation, also see CNO - Computer Network Operations.
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by themeek 11y ago
I see. This has already been done. During Operation Aurora the Chinese hacked into the FBI backdoor built into GMail by Google and used it to gather information about intelligence operations being performed by the United States against Chin
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by themeek 11y ago
The US is trying to establish norms for cyber operations in the international community - this is a missing and critical piece. But the US does have cyberwarfare policies. As part of a deterrence strategy the US strikes back when it can a
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by themeek 11y ago
Stopping Computer Network Exploitation is very, very difficult (the attacks happen at close to the speed of light). However with appropriate signals intelligence, sources of attacks can be determined. We don't know that China was reall
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by themeek 11y ago
Oh this isn't new. There has been cyberwarfare now for close to two decades, although there's certainly been increasing amounts of activity. The US of course will reply in kind. It is US defense policy in cyber to retaliate for cy
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by themeek 11y ago
The USG reserves the use of backdoor-free software and strong encryption for itself, so I'm not sure that this is a worry with regard to the recent data breach. The FBI means that consumers and foreign markets should not have encryptio
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by themeek 11y ago
The US government has some of the best CNA/E defense anywhere in the world - certainly better than almost all of industry - even departments that you would otherwise think are puny. The backdooring and lack of encryption in software is

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