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Security Researchers Face Revenge of Spy Agencies (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by timothy on from the color-everyone-surprised dept.

mask.of.sanity writes: Researchers tasked with revealing malware attack campaigns are being harassed, locked out of tenders, and in some cases deported. The retaliation by the unnamed spy agencies is in direct response to the popular published advanced-persistent threat campaigns that have coloured information security reporting over recent years. More details from researcher Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade are available in a paper (pdf).

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  1. Apparently the US is the best by PRMan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "In many places intelligence services tend to be more civilised than in others -- you would be lucky to deal with them in the US versus wherever else, Latin America, Asia, or Eastern Europe where they take very different tactics, "

    The article is referencing other nations where freedom of speech is less guaranteed...for now.

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    Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
  2. Punishments without a fair trial by JimSadler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This punishment without a trial nonsense needs to be hacked off at the knees and all who caused these punishments should be jailed.

    1. Re:Punishments without a fair trial by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Snowden hasn't faced a trial either. Nor has Assange.
      Both are definitely being punished though.

      Good luck sorting that one out.

    2. Re:Punishments without a fair trial by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Wha...? Snowden has been effectively exiled for doing the right and moral, if technically illegal, thing for the good of his country. Assange is effectively under indefinite house arrest and had his reputation destroyed for helping people find out what their governments are doing secretly in their name. Both live with the knowledge that if western intelligence agencies can find them they will almost certainly disappear "in mysterious circumstances" and (possibly, if the PR guys think it would spin well) turn up later for a show trial and/or indefinite detention until they go nuts aka Bradley Manning - if an "accident" doesn't mysteriously happen first.

      I'd call that (unjustified) punishment. Perhaps you have a different definition of the word?

  3. Re:For Your Own Good by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why are the government spy agencies unnamed?

    Because that would require actual evidence, and TFA has none. It is much easier to make vague accusations and include lots of scary handwaving.

  4. Re:For Your Own Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why are the government spy agencies unnamed? You would think those security researchers affected by these agencies would name names. I call bullshit on this story likely planted by the government as part of its propaganda campaign.

    Maybe, if they were named, then the researchers that named them would face revenge?