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All of you knew that it could only get worse:
Kaspersky malware probers have uncovered a new 'operating system-like' platform that [they claim] was developed and used by the National Security Agency (NSA) in its Equation spying arsenal. The EquationDrug or Equestre platform is used to deploy [an estimated] 116 plug-in modules to target computers that can siphon data and spy on victims. So far, only 30 modules have been identified.
"It's important to note that EquationDrug is not just a trojan, but a full espionage platform, which includes a framework for conducting cyber-espionage activities by deploying specific modules on the machines of selected victims," Kaspersky researchers say in a report.
The article goes on to explain that Kaspersky further believes that the software is part of the "NSA's campaign to infect hard disk firmware". There is considerably more detail in the article.
I think I am going to get my old manual typewriter out of the garage, get a new ribbon, use U.S. Mail instead of e-mail, and buy more ink for my fountain pens.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @06:57PM
Same address for 15 years and USPS still won't compare the number on the house to the number on the mail.
Time for "Inverse Hanlon's Razor"! Have you ever considered that such a gross level of incompetence cannot but be by design? If all the mail carriers that have ever been on your route have done the same thing, not only design, but conspiracy! And I don't know if you can see this, but the one common factor here is, you! Are you rude to mailpersons? Are you rude to government employees in general? Are you opposed to public employee unions? Do you live in Wisconson and is your name "Scott Walker"? Do you bark and/or bite?
If the answer to any of these questions is "yes", we may have identified the problem: it's you.