A Look at the NSA's Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool 154
realized writes in with a closer look at the NSA's QUANTUM system. "Today QUANTUM packs a suite of attack tools, including both DNS injection (upgrading the man-on-the-side to a man-in-the-middle, allowing bogus certificates and similar routines to break SSL) and HTTP injection. That reasonable enough. But it also includes gadgets like a plug-in to inject into MySQL connections, allowing the NSA to quietly mess with the contents of a third-party's database. (This also surprisingly suggests that unencrypted MySQL on the internet is common enough to attract NSA attention.) And it allows the NSA to hijack both IRC and HTTP-based criminal botnets, and also includes routines which use packet-injection to create phantom servers, and even attempting (poorly) to use this for defense."
Re:Feed the beast (Score:5, Funny)
They'll probably just think you're another 13 year old kid about to get himself killed doing something incredibly stupid....
I fully support this (Score:5, Funny)
I'm American and I fully support this. This is exactly what intelligence agencies are for. Nothing in any of these leaks in the linked article suggests these capabilities are being abused. I want my government to be able to pursue foreign intelligence targets with capabilities like these and--in a time where people complain relentlessly about government agencies being ineffective--I'm glad they are able to do this.
Posting anonymously because I've lost too much karma expressing a contrarian opinion on all these Snowden articles. Frankly, I'm more scared of moderators than our government...
Re:I wonder (Score:2, Funny)
No mans fool...Church...oops...
Re:Might not be intended for Internet MySQL (Score:5, Funny)
Hypocrite (Score:5, Funny)
Grow the fuck up and learn some respect for a different perspective / belief.
I believe that god is seventeen giant, 65 foot long orange lizards, all who are named 'Ralph'. They have mile long, glittering prehensile cocks that drag behind them. Ralph^17 will sail invisibly across the sky once per hour, where all humans on the planet must turn to the South, and bow while chanting, 'Rubber Button' for one minute in order to avoid Ralph's divine and righteous wrath. His son is a stop sign three miles south of Yuma, and all who are able must journey to see him once in their life, lest they be dammed to spend Christmas vacation in New Jersey for all eternity. I demand the same respect that these goofy christian mono-godders get, up to and including wording on American money acknowledging Ralph^17's almighty farts. BOW, HEATHENS!
I mock you sir, for failing to respect that some people's perspective and beliefs are that 'invisible shit isn't real, and that you should call out the Emperor as naked when he is'.