Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is
I posted about this in a different thread with a different throwaway, because I had suspicions that Snowden knew about the whole EG auction thing anyways. The writing has been on the walls.<p>This is why there is so much hype over what appears at a first glance to be an obvious scam, because there is a lot of potential for civilians to learn a lot about how state-sponsored hacking actually operates. It&#x27;s very different from how it&#x27;s portrayed in the movies, and you really wouldn&#x27;t be any wiser from not having been tainted by the movies anyways just due to the ridiculous amount of stealth involved in day-to-day operations.<p>If rumors are to be believed, then it means that EG can&#x27;t possibly be crazy enough to make such a (relatively) rudimentary mistake like leaving behind binaries to tools that they KNOW only they have access to. These binaries don&#x27;t seem like such a big deal, but the real situation is this: these binaries are the ONE thing that can tie all the dots together about all the different attacks that have happened. IRATEMONK, Stuxnet, Flame, etc. All these crazy &quot;unprecedented&quot; hacks that have just popped up out of nowhere could potentially be linked together with these binaries that may or may not exist. On top of that, with enough analysis, it&#x27;s possible to even identify different programmers just from their stylometry, even through code, so if these binaries are detailed enough there could be the potential for correlation of the author(s).<p>That auction is really interesting.