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?)

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Still not conviced

[Mysticalfruit]

I'm still not convinced this isn't some sort of odd false flag operation.

Imagine you're the NSA and you've been unable to get inside of some other countries likely air gapped cyber security operation... putting some juicy tools out there they're likely to snatch up and play with at least get you to see who the players are and maybe these tools work maybe they blow up... As for the vulnerabilities, with so many people playing this game, any vulnerability not found by the NSA is likely to be found by some other organization.

Even the vulnerabilities could be snares... I'm suspect of all of this and think it's just part of a big ruse.

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

[Anonymous Coward]

It matters because the guy running one of the candidates' campaigns is a registered fucking agent of the government that's perpetrating the cyberattacks against us.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/...

And that candidate's daughter is besties with Vladimir Putin's girlfriend/sidepiece.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/15...

And that same candidate's platform was recently changed to be more friendly to Russia as opposed to our ally, Ukraine.

http://www.politico.com/magazi...

So that's why it matters who the DNC leak is. Because Donald Trump is a mole.

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

[DarkOx]

That isn't fair criticism.

The facts are there was no provision for impeachment of a sitting president under their constitution at the time, and yet it happened.

It does not matter they guy was corrupt and in the pocket of the Russians, a coup is still a coup. The rule of law should matter. The people should live with the consequences of who they voted for or use a predefined process for impeachment or recall. You don't get to make one up after the fact.

We saw the same thing with the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt. Are the people there better off having removed them, oh probably but it was NOT legal or democratic.

What is even worse is in the case of both Ukraine and Egypt we violate our own laws and sacrifice our own integrity continuing to provide aide and honor treaties with these countries after these coups have occured, despite the fact our laws say we can't do that. We could/should probably recognize the new governments as new governments and consider it a diplomatic reset, but that is bad for business and our State Department / Congress is lazy and corrupt itself.