Monday, November 13, 2017

First they came for my OPM file, and now... NSA hack

NYTimes article.

internal leak, or Russia?

Mr. Snowden released code words, while the Shadow Brokers have released the actual code; if he shared what might be described as battle plans, they have loosed the weapons themselves. Created at huge expense to American taxpayers, those cyberweapons have now been picked up by hackers from North Korea to Russia and shot back at the United States and its allies.

Bet on the press blaming Russia, since that can be politicized to destroy Trump.

but I suspect a lot of the hacks have help by black hat kids who agree that the gov't is snooping too much on the average person, and having fun taking them down.

But my OPM file was hacked supposedly by the Chinese, and no one seemed to get too upset back then.

and 15 years ago, our ancient "MSDOS" preWindows computers at our IHS clinic, with patient information, was hacked, and this essentially shut us down computerwise (however, we still had... hand written records. There are some advantages for being behind the times).


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