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Bruce Schneier: China and Russia had top secret files long before Snowden stole them
I so agree with Schneier in this.Security expert Bruce Schneier believes the NSA and GCHQ should look in the mirror and not at Edward Snowden when looking to blame someone for countries like China and Russia having access to its top secret documents.
In the wake of a Sunday Times report on 14 June alleging that China and Russia had cracked a cache of documents handed to them by Edward Snowden, there was widespread and angry criticism of the article described as "the opposite of journalism".
Schneier, writing for Wired, calls the article "terrible" which is "filled with factual inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims" before stating that while he doesn't believe Snowden handed over the documents he has no doubt that governments like China and Russia do have access to the documents in question.
The cryptographer, who analysed some of the cache of Snowden documents, poses two possible routes by which these documents got into the hands of foreign regimes.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bruce-schneier-china-russia-had-top-secret-files-long-before-snowden-stole-them-1506597
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Bruce Schneier: China and Russia had top secret files long before Snowden stole them (Original Post)
bemildred
Jun 2015
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KoKo
(84,711 posts)1. And, this is chilling but probably true...
from the article..which is definitely a "Good Read." The systems are just too overloaded these days and many of us find our connection speeds slowing down because the infrastructure can't handle all the Movies, Books, Govt & Bank Data Forms, Gaming, University Research Papers, Fun Sites and all the other stuff ithat now has to be done "Online" along with personal and social interaction like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.....so much information Globally and the tracking algorithms even can't keep up without screwing up, one would think...
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Schneier recalls speaking with a source within the US intelligence network about just this aspect of cyberespionage and the source told him:
"I know how deep we are in our enemies' networks without them having any idea that we're there. I'm worried that our networks are penetrated just as deeply."
bemildred
(90,061 posts)2. And it will only get worse. nt
bemildred
(90,061 posts)3. 600 million Samsung Galaxy phones exposed to hackers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141120181
And we have people doing their banking on those, right?
And we have people doing their banking on those, right?