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AnonTechie writes:
"Schneier: NSA snooping tactics will be copied by criminals in 3 to 5 years. If you thought NSA snooping was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet: online criminals have also been watching and should soon be able to copy the agency's invasive surveillance tactics, according to security guru Bruce Schneier.
'The NSA techniques give about a three to five year lead on what cyber-criminals will do,' he told an audience at the RSA 2014 conference in San Francisco. 'These techniques for exfiltrating data aren't magical, they are just expensive. Everything we know about technology is that it gets cheaper. So the notion of putting up a fake cell tower or wireless access point, of jumping air gaps, you're going to see this stuff it's really just a matter of time.' "
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:59PM
Yeah. How likely is it for the Mob to get a telco to set up a "Room 641A" for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A [wikipedia.org]
The NSA and FBI can tell telcos and other corps to bend-over at the top levels to do stuff like that. But if the Mafia tried the same thing the telco bosses may have their friends in Government show the Mafia a thing or two about who calls the shots.
Unless of course it's Russia where the line between the russian mafia and government seems rather blurry to me ;).