Comment by codr7
2 years ago
My rule of thumb in these situations is always: if they could, they would.
I've seen enough blatant disregard for humanity to assume any kind of honesty in the powers that were.
2 years ago
My rule of thumb in these situations is always: if they could, they would.
I've seen enough blatant disregard for humanity to assume any kind of honesty in the powers that were.
I'm sure the NSA 9-5ers justify weakening standards processes by the fact it's still secure enough to be useful for citizens and some gov orgs but flawed enough to help themselves when it matters at x point in the future.
No one can say they pushed some useless or overtly backdoored encryption. That's rarely how Intel agencies work. It's also not how they need to work to maintain their effectiveness indefinitely.
When the CIA is trying to recruit for HUMINT if they can get claws into anything whether it's a business conference that has a 0.1% chance they'll meet some pliable young but likely future industry insider that may or may not turn into a valuable source then they'll show up to every single year to that conference. It's a matter of working every angle you can get.
They aren't short of people, time, or money. And in security tiny holes in a dam turn into torrents of water all the time.
The fact NIST is having non public backroom meetings with NSA, concealing NSA employee paper authors, generating a long series of coincidental situations preferencing one system, and stonewalling FIOAs from reputable individuals. IDK, if was a counter intelligence officer in charge of detecting foreign IC work I'd be super suspicious of anything sold as safe and open from that org.
Where is your evidence other than your gut feeling from other unrelated news articles?