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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:32PM
Most likely the Russians already have. The KGB and its successor the FSB have not been slouches in this regard I imagine, and there are plenty of ties between them and the Russian Mafia to be sure. Yeah, our vaunted cyber "infrastructure" has more holes than Swiss cheese, and we have the NSA to thank for that. They have shirked their other, more important duty, which was to secure this infrastructure, at the expense of their mission to spy on the world.