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New Snowden Leaks Show NSA Attacked Anti-Virus Software
New submitter Patricbranson writes: The NSA, along with its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), spent years reverse-engineering popular computer security software in order to spy on email and other electronic communications, according to the classified documents published by the online news site The Intercept. With various countries' spy agencies trying to make sure computers aren't secure (from their own intrusions, at least), it's no wonder that Kaspersky doesn't want to talk about who hacked them.
>Who the fuck said it was?
People defending Snowden as a pro-american whistleblower that should be pardonned by US authorities.
>Americans have no fucking right to be fooling around with our computers and phones!
"Rights"? Power is power. The US, and every single other countries, are going to do things that favor their foreign policy, especially if they think they can get away with it. There's no "rights" here.
The genius was right. Malware tricks a gullible fool, usually using an admin account for browsing the web, into installing it. In order to do so you need to disable or ignore several OS X provided obstacles and warning.
AFAIK, there are no Mac viruses that are not dealt with by OS X's built in AV systems.
Um yeah... You might want to check your facts Fanboi.
http://www.gfi.com/blog/most-vulnerable-operating-systems-and-applications-in-2014/