If the contractor's files contained code that matched code in NSA malware, this would make sense. The main job of an antivirus program is to detect that kind of stuff.
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@SenatorShaheen, who has led the congressional push to ban Kaspersky from U.S. government networks, calls the NSA breach story "a stark warning" about the dangers of using Kaspersky software.pic.twitter.com/FYYFGzQlyp
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N.B.: Rob Joyce, who now oversees all cyber policy for the Trump administration, was the head of the NSA's elite hacking unit when all of this happened. Bet he's pissed.
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Replying to @ericgeller
So why didn't we find out about it when he headed it up, only 2 years later?
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Replying to @emptywheel
I suspect this is not a story that the NSA enjoys having out there
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Replying to @ericgeller
But the story reports that it was only discovered this year, meaning it wasn't discovered under Joyce.
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Replying to @emptywheel
The story says it was discovered in the spring of last year. Joyce was in charge of TAO at that time.pic.twitter.com/uLZpPS0bbh
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Replying to @ericgeller
Ah, my bad. Good thing we promoted the guy under whom probable Shadow Brokers tools got stolen.
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Replying to @ericgeller
It aggravates me that we've had no real accountability, at all, for years of breaches.
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It makes absolutely no sense to keep this stuff secret from us if RU can pwn us at will year after year.
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Replying to @emptywheel
not disagreeing with that, fwiw, just poking fun
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Replying to @ericgeller @emptywheel
No. It makes sense u keep it private till there is a fix. Now it's okay to talk about it.
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