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'Very High Level of Confidence' Russia Used Kaspersky Software For Devastating NSA Leaks (yahoo.com)
bricko shares a report from Yahoo Finance: Three months after U.S. officials asserted that Russian intelligence used popular antivirus company Kaspersky to steal U.S. classified information, there are indications that the alleged espionage is related to a public campaign of highly damaging NSA leaks by a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers. In August 2016, the Shadow Brokers began leaking classified NSA exploit code that amounted to hacking manuals. In October 2017, U.S. officials told major U.S. newspapers that Russian intelligence leveraged software sold by Kaspersky to exfiltrate classified documents from certain computers. (Kaspersky software, like all antivirus software, requires access to everything stored on a computer so that it can scan for malicious software.) And last week the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. investigators "now believe that those manuals [leaked by Shadow Brokers] may have been obtained using Kaspersky to scan computers on which they were stored." Members of the computer security industry agree with that suspicion. "I think there's a very high level of confidence that the Shadow Brokers dump was directly related to Kaspersky ... and it's very much attributable," David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, told Yahoo Finance. "Unfortunately, we can only hear that from the intelligence side about how they got that information to see if it's legitimate."
It is sad watching slashdot reduced to repeating neocon waffle on a technology forum.
Hopefully you are not that fucking stupid. It is your POLITICIANS that ordered the NSA to do what ever it is you think they are doing. The NSA didn't just get a wild hair up their ass and decided to so-called spy on you. This all started with Republicans in the Bush administration that ordered the NSA to do this illegally. This was revealed when an AT&T employee busted the operation in AT&T's room 614a with the Narus 6400 and the fiber taps. After this came to light the majority of Republicans and the Republican president George W bush aided by a minority of Democrats came out with the PATRIOT Act making it legal to do this shit. Either you wake the fuck up and stop blaming the NSA for following orders of your politicians and blame the politicians and vote them the fuck out or shut your fucking trap. Christ.