NSA Has 50,000 ‘Digital Sleeper Agents’ Via Computer Malware

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/23/nsa-has-50000-digital-sleeper-agents-snowden/

by indrax • 13 years ago

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imahboob• 13 years ago

There must be an another way that the spying software was loaded other than fake emails, that shit is getting old.. no way can it fool 50,000 people.

sillysaurus2• 13 years ago

The average person barely knows how to use Facebook. By definition, half of the population is even less capable.

salient• 13 years ago

What do you think the exploits given to them by Microsoft, way before they even start working on fixing them, are used for?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-t...

The excuse that they are doing that to "give them a heads up" is BS. I think it's a very immoral thing to do by Microsoft. They've giving NSA knowledge about early exploits which they know NSA and others will use them offensively. That's an extremely dangerous, and again, immoral, policy, and it needs to stop.

Microsoft shouldn't even dare to argue against "full disclosure" of bugs from now, when we know that if developers do "responsible disclosure" as they call it, they're just going to give them to the NSA first, before fixing it - which is actually very irresponsible of Microsoft, as it puts all of their other customers in danger of an imminent attack from a very hostile agency. At least with a public full disclosure, they have no chance but to fix the bugs as soon as possible.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239477/Google_engine...

No, you can't assume they're doing it just to "terrorists". We already know that with their "collect it all" mission, they'll try to infect and have backdoors into everything, so they can turn anyone at anytime into a target, with the flip of a switch.

NSA Has 50,000 ‘Digital Sleeper Agents’ Via Computer Malware

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