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:I wonder (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I wonder (Score:0, Interesting)
The problem is their not whistleblowers, Snowden (from what I've read) was a **maintenance** person. He had no business peeking into the data.
If he was a person that monitors, and or scans through the data, he would've have been subject to signing a contract with the company, any information he sees, inner workings, and knowledge of his job would cause him/her to be seeing prison time and a lawsuit. And I would think, which would be 50/50 considering the government doesn't believe in security, those wavier contracts would need to be included for any private company that is seeking a contract with a government agency.
Which is why your not seeing or hearing anyone that works for these companies, and agencies coming out to "blow the whistle".
And a whistleblower to me, should be someone that can give an insight to the workings of lets say a secret society, ect., the information your reading and hearing over the NSA isn't a surprise. Nor has there been anything insightful. Everything their doing has already been widely known.
What is surprising is how the FBI kept files over their spying and targeting of 'suspect' Americans, not only that but the were released to the public.
I could give you a list of things the FBI had employed to targets, from smear campaigns, to implanting false evidence and charges, to blckmailing people around them, ect... The government has been using hacks for years, this latest NSA story is about 20-30 years old.
Re:I wonder (Score:1, Interesting)
I'm not sure what country you're from, but in America, morals are for suckers and poor people.
You are wrong.
I am an American, I am far from poor and I am no man's fool. I live by the moral compass taught to me by my parents, my church and my conscience and I have done very well in my 50 years on Earth.
The most precious commodity is the ability to sleep at night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Re:I wonder (Score:4, Interesting)
Riiiight, because your faith is magically better then his faith ???
Grow the fuck up and learn some respect for a different perspective / belief.
Re:I also fully support this (Score:0, Interesting)
Or we see society as a bunch of untalented sharks circling around the few talented fish........
Sucks being a talented fish.
I can't drive the speed I want because of these small slow-brains tip-toeing around claiming that even their tip-toeing is too fast to be "safe".
I can't openly do things that are now banned because small brains can't handle a vice without doing it every day ruining their lives.....
I can't simply fix a small issue with my house because the small brains would cross wires and start fires.... Now I gotta pay for "inspections".
In some states I can't even pump my own gas.....
I'm tired of not being trusted to be smart enough to tie my own shoes..... surrounded by idiots who slow me down in every way, then complain if I find a way around their slowness.
I'm supposed to just be thankful that I'm alive by their thinking..... not upset my extra IQ is wasted by their blackhole intelligence.
If someone like me has something.... the others act like they need it too, even if I'm busting my ass in ways they aren't.
According to them I'm just a stingy self-centered person.... In reality I have morals more advanced than theirs and they are OFFENDING ME at nearly every chance. THAT is why I dislike society.
I tend to be on the giving side more than the receiving side. I didn't grow up in a fancy neighborhood, I didn't graduate high school, I got screwed by "society" at every turn yet still managed to earn $100K/year at 26 years old. And guess what..... society is PISSED about that.
They are mostly mad that I skipped their hoops and used my natural intelligence to still achieve success. When you were doing homework I wasnt. When you were going to college I wasn't. Then you got your fancy degree with large amounts of debt.... I wasn't. Instead I dropped out and earned $60,000/year less than one year after dropping out. Then raises and raises left me breaching $100,000 at 26 years old. I come to work in jeans, I sleep in, I barely put in 6 hours of work.
But I make $100K because I'm smarter than you..... not because I work harder. Hard work is for small brains..... people like you who can't fathom a guy with brains who expects to use them. So yeah I expect to use my body how I please. If I want to drive fast, MOVE. I build your society while watching you do almost nothing. It's my RIGHT to do as I please. Eventually you'll figure it out.
Re:wishful thinking (Score:5, Interesting)
Clearly they have an interest (or conflict of interest) in letting botnets run amok, as it gives them a cover for their own illegal activities.