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Security Researchers Face Revenge of Spy Agencies (theregister.co.uk)
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).
Can't you see that our good friends the government agencies are protecting us from those evil researchers?
We wouldn't want freedom of speech and privacy now, would we?
People of questionable morality don't like to be thwarted in their nefarious activities and retaliate.
Security researcher Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade was found dead in his apartment. Investigators found Guerrero-Saade laying next to various narcotics including heroin and suspect a drug overdose as the cause of death. His neighbors say he was a quiet man that mostly kept to himself.
"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.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
While I have no reason doubt that harassment and revenge is happening quite frequently, the article doesn't provide any information to substantiate their statements.
What does it mean to be "locked out of tenders"? My Google-fu fails me here.
Why? Don't want to work for a living? Keep your hands off my money you mooch. Fair warning: I'll be protecting it.
What the heck is a "tender"?
I find it interesting that not having security clearance is viewed as an impediment.
I'm well employed in computer security and not having any clearance, not having signed any government secrets agreement has been an essential part of being able to do my job.
While I work with people with clearances, I simply cannot trust them for specific things because it is not possible to know who they are really working for. Once you have signed up, you are clear for some government work, but tainted for work on the outside. Take your pick.
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Bernie Sanders drinking game: Any time Bernie says "Socialism", take a drink of someone else's beer.
Cthulhu for President. Why vote for the lesser evil?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
This punishment without a trial nonsense needs to be hacked off at the knees and all who caused these punishments should be jailed.
It appears that government has used the Microsoft Word "search and replace" function to substitute the word "cybersecurity" for every instance of the word, "surveillance".
You are welcome on my lawn.
It also has an impact on what you can be trusted with. I would not employ you in any capacity that was a position of trust over customer security. You say it was guidance systems, but if you were seeking the key management job, it would raise questions about what your motivations are.
It's not a pejorative thing. It's just how trust works. It isn't transitive and it goes both ways.
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It's okay - I'm willing to share my beer. It's less expensive and disruptive than you stealing all of it because you don't have any. So, have a sip. Hell, take one 'for the road' when you go. (You should probably have someone drive you.)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
You say you were working on a guidance system, but if it's a classified project, I can't ascertain that you're telling the truth.
So, yes, it has an effect on the ability to trust you by anyone who don't both have the proper clearance and a government approved "need to know".
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I do agree with you that working on a job that requires a security clearance is no more than any other legally enforceable NDA, where the company demanding the NDA won't share information. In fact it's exactly the same thing.
So yes, you are right, I am suspicious of candidates from any NDA job. But most companies don't operate large spy agencies, so you can know that the NDA isn't covering for them. I don't suspect companies of hiring people secretly to do things that the companies don't do. But if there's a hidden area, they one must consider that they might have done anything that the companies do within that hidden area. So if a company runs a secret police force, then I may suspect that the NDA covered work in or for that secret police force with reason, though the term here is "suspect", and it doesn't speak to how one judges probabilities. Generally the probability is rather low. Sometimes, however, a rather low probability is sufficient to justify a passive decision (i.e., a decision not to take a particular action).
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
An example of that was one of the Enron guys that had some sort of clearance from a previous job and cultivated a cloak and dagger aura with wild rumours of him doing special ops stuff part time (I forget his name but it was in the books about that utterly fucked company). He would vanish for days and questioned he would tell his bosses it was "sensitive" - probably literally because he was eventually seen in strip clubs on such occasions :)
So you are saying that Trump isn't speaking facts? As far as I have seen people are getting pissed because all he speaks are facts. NBC and Univision got pissed because he quoted a Univision owned magazine about crime in immigrants, can't have him quoting us on the subject, that is racist!
Carson also speaks his mind, and is getting fury from the press over it. He talked about how Islam is incompatible with freedom, do you doubt that to be true?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
You have a quarter of the money, while others get the rest of what you earn by sitting at home drinking. You are lucky to be able to afford beer.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?