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posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the old-crooks-meet-the-new-crooks dept.

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.' "

 
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  • (Score: -1) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:42PM (#9728)

    i have the feeling that "well-healed" people don't mind being sn00ped on
    at all. in a way it makes them feel proud, like a child feels proud, when
    a parent shows him/her attention, akin to "look mommy/daddy what i have accomplished".
    or maybe like some people just love to be watched ... why the flashy
    house (dare i say villa), car, boat, girlfriend?
    in the end it is the not-well-healed people who bare the brunt if sh1t goes south.
    they don't have the "connections" and money to get out of a dodgy legal situation ...
    people (working for privat or gloverment) are mostly impressed by "looks" (spelled suits)
    anyways ...

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