Though the NSA is characteristically not publicly discussing the matter, reports citing private comments from the officials say that the agency is bracing for “major” new leaks.
The leaks, according to the reports, are not related to Edward Snowden’s releases, and interestingly weren’t leaked by any insiders at all.
Rather, they are going to be technical data about how the NSA surveils people, and were uncovered by an unnamed cyber security firm operating outside of the United States.
It will be interesting to see how the administration reacts in that case. President Obama has been extremely hostile to whistleblowers within agencies, but with the data uncovered by people who weren’t working for the NSA or the US government to begin with, their options seem limited.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to the final reporting by Greenwald that was supposed to give the names of those targeted by the NSA?
It was released, but very few people cared since those being surveiled were Muslims.
It happened. It was just that very few with the necessary platforms for reaching a significant portion of Americans actually cared, probably because it was Muslims being spied upon.
What those 6 guys or so? I thought it'd be a huge list.
"…their options seem limited." No problemo…they'll just send the CIA in and snatch them off the street and plant them deep in GITMO for the rest of their lives. Or maybe they'll send in a squad of shooters all screaming "Allahu Akbar" to lay waste to the infidels to further enflame hostilities between so-called muslims and so-called christians.
You know, SOP for the elite class.
uncovered by an unnamed cyber security firm operating outside of the United States.
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There is something of poetic justice of Shakespearian proportions that the spy's get spied upon, and they really really really don't like it. They are so sick and arrogant that they thought that They could violate the Constitutional 4th Amendment Rights of ALL Americans and WE THE PEOPLE were somehow never going to find out what they are DOING TO US in our name, in secret with secret laws and secret courts. That I is just plain twisted and sick! Meanwhile one HEROIC AMERICAN named Snowden burst that bubble. The really funny thing is the Snowden revelations followed on the heals of the Manning revelations. After Manning how could then be so incompetent as to suffer yet another body blow? What about the next major leak and the one after that? And we are funneling trillions of tax dollars at these sick twisted idiots to supposedly keep us safe. Gee, how safe do you really feel? The bigger question is who is going to protect and defend the American people from those who claim to be our defenders and protectors?
I believe this refers to the new Kaspersky antivirus company report produced today revealing a ton of malware apparently created by the NSA, which includes among other things the capability to reprogram hard drive firmware to establish malware persistence even across hard drive reformats. This is REALLY bad news from an infosec perspective. This malware may have been in operation for as long as 17 years.
Here's Wired's story on the new revelations:
Suite of Sophisticated Nation-State Attack Tools Found With Connection to Stuxnet – http://www.wired.com/2015/02/kapersky-discovers-e…