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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExperts have 2 theories for how top-secret NSA data was stolen, and they're equally disturbing
by Paul Szoldra at Business Insiderhttp://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-hacking-theories-2016-8
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Some former agency employees believe that the alleged group behind the leak, the "Shadow Brokers," may have hacked an NSA server that had a top-secret hacker toolkit left there by mistake.
Others believe that the Brokers may be just a smokescreen for another possibility: an agency mole.
"The key thing I think people are missing is that [most are talking] about how someone hacked a command-and-control box somewhere on the internet," Dave Aitel, an ex-NSA research scientist who now leads penetration-testing firm Immunity, told Business Insider. "If you actually look at the files, it really doesn't seem like that is the case."
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Experts have 2 theories for how top-secret NSA data was stolen, and they're equally disturbing (Original Post)
applegrove
Aug 2016
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Now, with the intertubes and wikileaks, moles can be self radicalized. They do not have to
applegrove
Aug 2016
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Wilms
(26,795 posts)1. Wow.
There's was something about "the Russian's did it" campaign that gave me pause.
applegrove
(118,740 posts)2. Now, with the intertubes and wikileaks, moles can be self radicalized. They do not have to
belong to some foreign government or be handled by them. Scary world it is.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)3. But...but...but..."it took million$ to do this...
...so it must be state sponsored...so it must be Putin".
Should get a lot of attention.
applegrove
(118,740 posts)4. It could very well be the Russians.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)5. And could very well not.