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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 5 Oct 2017

    Kaspersky and the Third Major Breach of NSA's Hacking Tools https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/10/05/kaspersky-and-the-third-major-breach-of-nsas-hacking-tools/ … Regin whitepaper Nov 2014 Equation Group WP Feb 2015

    10:40 AM - 5 Oct 2017
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      1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 5 Oct 2017

        WSJ story explains how Kaspersky wrote such good white papers on Regin, Equation Group, Duqu 2.0. It DOESN'T explain who RU found contractor

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      1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 5 Oct 2017

        What does it mean for a hacker -- who can't hack targets from inside the NSA -- brought his work home?

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      2. chinahand‏ @chinahand 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        iirc us av makers agreed to blind their products to nsa exploits. any angle of "kaspersky getting punished for providing us targets w/

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      3. chinahand‏ @chinahand 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @chinahand @emptywheel

        genuinely effective av"?

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      4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @chinahand

        That's what I think this is. Gotta take out the one entity that actually could find NSA.

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      2. Diane Brewer‏ @DianeBrewer99 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        How did Russian software even get sold in the US? As soon as heard about it I was horrified

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @DianeBrewer99

        That's what China wants to know about Apple and Russia wants to know about LinkedIn.

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      2. hello‏ @bobpoekert 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        "which in Russia, handles both spying and cybersecurity —though ostensibly again, that’s how the FBI works here" did you mean NSA?

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @bobpoekert

        No. FBI. FBI has prime on cyberattacks in the US.

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      1. that guy, always wore a shirt‏ @Darph_Nader 5 Oct 2017
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        it's not nice to call people tools

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