Rick Ledgett Claims NSA's Malware Isn't Malware https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/10/23/rick-ledgett-claims-nsas-malware-isnt-malware/ … I'm coining "Mal-DemocracyPonies" now for NSA hacking tools.
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Ledgett's solution to Kaspersky scandal is to have third party monitor Kaspersky (what we're worried FSB did to it). https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/10/23/rick-ledgett-claims-nsas-malware-isnt-malware/ …
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Which I take to be another way of saying, "Damnit, we can't hack you to learn what you have anymore, so pay Equifax to do it for us."
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Also, Ledgett wants you to believe that Kaspersky would find NSA hacking tools by searching on the word "proprietary."
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EVEN ASSUMING you could find a trusted third party to wiretap Kaspersky to tell us FSB wasn't wiretapping it, how long till it was pwned?
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Imagine the solution to "Effective AV company lives in Russia" being "let's make easily hackable database of all the malware they find."
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Hey CYBERZ CRIMINULZ?!?!? DATABASE OF BEST TOYS EVAH LIVES HERE<<<<<
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omg i can't believe he wants to tap traffic and redirect to database to prove no one is tapping and redirecting. wtaf
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Right? Does he not get how crazy that solution is?
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i can't even
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We'll call it the Democracy Pony Database of Cyber Bad Ideas.
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a controlled reality, where one's own authority can never be good or bad, but always right
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