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Helen Borg

(3,963 posts)
Sat Aug 27, 2016, 07:46 AM Aug 2016

The NSA Is Hoarding Vulnerabilities

"The National Security Agency is lying to us. We know that because of data stolen from an NSA server was dumped on the Internet. The agency is hoarding information about security vulnerabilities in the products you use, because it wants to use it to hack others' computers. Those vulnerabilities aren't being reported, and aren't getting fixed, making your computers and networks unsafe.

On August 13, a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released 300 megabytes of NSA cyberweapon code on the Internet. Near as we experts can tell, the NSA network itself wasn't hacked; what probably happened was that a "staging server" for NSA cyberweapons -- that is, a server the NSA was making use of to mask its surveillance activities -- was hacked in 2013."

More at the link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/the_nsa_is_hoar.html

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