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NSA Hackers The Shadow Brokers Dump More Files (vice.com)
The hacker (or a group of hackers) who call themselves The Shadow Brokers today published more files. From an article on Motherboard: This latest release comes while Hal Martin, an NSA contractor and, according to The Washington Post , the prime suspect in The Shadow Brokers case sits in detention after being arrested for allegedly stealing swaths of classified material. "TheShadowBrokers is having special trick or treat for Amerikanskis tonight," a message from the hackers posted to Medium reads. The message is signed with the same PGP key used to sign several previous posts, including the group's original announcement that came with links to a slew of NSA exploits. As for the files, The Shadow Brokers claim they reveal IP addresses linked to the Equation Group, a hacking unit widely believed to be tied to the NSA. "This is being equation group pitchimpair (redirector) keys, many missions into your network is/was coming from these ip addresses," The Shadow Brokers' post continues.The report adds that the dump contains 300 folders of files -- all corresponding to different domains and IP addresses. Security researcher who goes by the alias Hacker Fantastic the dump contains 306 domains and 352 IP addresses relating to 49 countries in total. "If accurate, victims of the Equation Group may be able to use these files to determine if they were potentially targeted by the NSA-linked unit."
It's rather meaningless that someone accused of stealing information is in prison when some of the information was released. It does bring a smile to my face that their announcement is written in "Russian accent" English, especially with all the blaming Russia because we don't like the leaked info going around.
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No network is secure. The very concept of security is antithetical to what networks are about: sharing information. Any attempts to add security to networks is ultimately useless. Of course people will get mad to me for saying this, but this is proven over and over again: once information is on a network - it is shared. Due to the way networks are constructed there is no way to reliably exclude the sharing of the information, because there is no way to reliably validate connected endpoints. An endpoint can be a computer, a router or some guy plugging in a thumbdrive. Intelligence agencies need to stop using computer networks for sensitive information. The bigger the network, the more insecure it is. And the agencies have large networks.
Using that accent is actually pretty smart. Yes, it's fake, but it's supposed to be fake. That's the whole point.
A person's writing gives his origin away. If he is a non-native speaker, the way he words certain phrases and certain mistakes, grammatical or orthographic, he makes give an analyst an idea what his native language would be. Even if he is a native speaker, certain idioms and expressions can lend a hint to his origin, at the very least you'd be able to find out whether he's English, Aussie or American, and it's even likely that you can pinpoint him more exactly.
You pretty much eliminate this threat by putting on a fake accent. Then it becomes a bit like reading old Soviet Pravda for the analyst: Which of the thousands of lies is actually true?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This is the National Security Agency we're talking about. The narrative we're supposed to believe is that these are the best and brightest security professionals on the planet. All evidence suggests otherwise, with terabytes of classified information being carted out their own doors.
You'd think they would focus more on their own operational security and less on violating the civil liberties of normal, law-abiding American citizens, and yet they don't. What does that tell you.
Yep given the accent, they are trying to pin it on FPS Russia.