Fakery

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

A “zero day” is a bug in a software program that allows hackers access. The NSA says they don’t search for these and stockpile them to use against terrorists. Why the hell not? And why lie about it, unless that’s your top-down management style?

Joe Doakes

That’s the thing about the whole espionage, counter-espionage, cryptography, counter-cryptography, terrorism and counter-terrorism thing; it’s all about head-faking the other guy.  Constantly.  And sometimes, we are “the other guy”.

One thought on “Fakery

  1. Personally, if I were running things at the NSA, I would fire a shot across the bow of both China and Russia. Since most of the ID and financial theft come from former Soviet Bloc countries and most technological theft is by China, I would shut off their internet access to the U.S. for a week. As a former telecom geek, I can state that this could be done, but all of the companies that had operations in China would be pissed.

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