Edward Snowden
The hack of an NSA malware staging server is not unprecedented, but the publication of the take is. Here's what you need to know: (1/x)
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5) Knowing this, NSA's hackers (TAO) are told not to leave their hack tools ("binaries") on the server after an op. But people get lazy.
6) What's new? NSA malware staging servers getting hacked by a rival is not new. A rival publicly demonstrating they have done so is.
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7) Why did they do it? No one knows, but I suspect this is more diplomacy than intelligence, related to the escalation around the DNC hack.
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8) Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility. Here's why that is significant:
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9) This leak is likely a warning that someone can prove US responsibility for any attacks that originated from this malware server.
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10) That could have significant foreign policy consequences. Particularly if any of those operations targeted US allies.
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11) Particularly if any of those operations targeted elections.
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12) Accordingly, this may be an effort to influence the calculus of decision-makers wondering how sharply to respond to the DNC hacks.
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13) TL;DR: This leak looks like a somebody sending a message that an escalation in the attribution game could get messy fast.
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Bonus: When I came forward, NSA would have migrated offensive operations to new servers as a precaution - it's cheap and easy. So? So...
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@Snowden so it's a nation-state throw down? -
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@gemnacpop@Snowden@SalaMilagro@taringa Piletas hoy están abandonadas SegúnGobernador Gerardo Morales, "los Coyas no lo merecen" S.O.S
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@Snowden @JanieBlakely Usually, a rival wouldn't reveal they'd done this, so the more interesting piece is - why did they this time? -
@Deir_in_DC@Snowden Ohhhhh....ri.i.i.i.ight.
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@Snowden@moscow_ghost New wave of "cybersecurity" measures coming after US elections--bet on it. To "keep Americans safe". -
@Snowden nice to hear from you please show yourself on youtube and send hash of that both in a separate tweet and youtube -
@Snowden need to write an article/more explanations/things 2crypto/not a geek/#fascinatingstuff -
@Snowden Wrote about this 12 years ago; the Internet cannot be secured but the fools keep trying
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