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| Snowden may have leaked 'source code' for NSA programme |
| 2015-01-28 |
| [Rooters] SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 27 - A program used by U.S. and British spies to record computer keystrokes was part of sophisticated hacking operations in more than a dozen countries, security experts said on Tuesday, after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reportedly leaked the source code for the program. On Tuesday, researchers at security software firm Kaspersky Lab said that much of that code, published this month by German magazine Spiegel, matched what they previously found in machines infected by Regin, a major suite of spying tools exposed in November. Lead Kaspersky researcher Costin Raiu said that the keylogging program, called Qwerty, would work only with Regin, and that it appeared several Western countries' spies had been using Regin over the course of a decade. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 "Our latest that'll set em back decades |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-01-28 15:38 |
| #4 #3 On the other hand, we've joked a few times at work that leaking the source to some of our applications could cripple our competition as they try to understand what we're doing... Funny how you should call that a joke. Depending how twisty your thinking process is, that could be the actual plan... Wheels within wheels, comrades! |
| Posted by: Nguard 2015-01-28 15:34 |
| #3 On the other hand, we've joked a few times at work that leaking the source to some of our applications could cripple our competition as they try to understand what we're doing... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-01-28 12:39 |
| #2 The CIA should do a bit of wet work on him. Ricin, or Polonium perhaps... pour encourager les autres, of course. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-01-28 09:52 |
| #1 Just remember, he's a totally outside, freedom loving guy. Not a mole planted on the NSA. He just happened to find all this stuff lying around, and didn't even know what he'd |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-01-28 07:56 |