NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com)

Reader wierd_w writes: According to Business Insider, the NSA is worried about the possible scope of information leaked from the agency, after a group calling themselves the 'Shadow Brokers' absconded with a sizable trove of penetration tools and technical exploits, which it plans to sell on the black market. Among the concerns are worries that active operations may have been exposed. Business insider quotes an undisclosed source as stating the possibility of the loss of such security and stealth (eg privacy) has had chilling effects for the agency, as they attempt to determine the fullness and scope of the leak.
(Does anyone besides me feel a little tickled about the irony of the NSA complaining about chilling effects of possibly being monitored?)

Comments

Re:Why do you speak on behalf of the rest of socie

[PopeRatzo]

Since when is Ukraine a US ally?

Since 1994, when Ukraine established relations with NATO, and since 2008, when the Bush administration voiced support for Ukraine joining NATO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Since then, the official US designation for Ukraine is a "major non-NATO ally" (MSNA):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Remember this next time the FBI sues Apple

[GrandCow]

"No, we swear the tool won't ever get out to the public! We 100% guarantee it!"

6 months later: "well... shit"

Re:Your security services are under attack

[Plugh]

It stopped being "my" country when it started keeping secrets in order to aggregate power. "My" country is run by the people, for the people, and of the people.

Many of us feel the same way, and are concentrating our efforts in one small geographic distribution. We've elected dozens into the State legislature and many more municipally across the state. Maybe you should vote with your feet. Free State Project

Re:I still think

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know...in the series of tweets that Snowden made on the topic, I (believe) he implied that it was more likely someone had access to a secure facility, threw a bunch of files that should have been secured onto a USB thumbdrive and walked right back out. Nothing so dramatic as a zero-day exploit, it almost sounds as if they (amazingly) haven't learned anything from Snowden's example at all...

I'm not sure what worries me more, the fact that these people are conducting surveillance on a global scale, or that they are _incompetent_ at conducting surveillance on a global scale... It's kind of like growing up in the early 80's knowing that Reagan had one shaky finger on the button that could have ended the world, so to speak, without a wisp of sanity left in his head, the poor guy. I actually have a great deal of respect for him for continuing despite his ill health at that age, but even I have to admit it was unwise...but I digress!