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Originally Posted by _Richard_
well i am talking on a institution level.. these are the guys that thought HB Gary were the end all be all of security, who ended up getting hacked cause someone asked them for a password
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Yeah, that was more of a poor "security policy" type-of-a-thing. (Social engineering lol)
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Originally Posted by _Richard_
so those guys answer is smear campaigns and 'disappearing' there is far more effective ways to discredit someone.. completely
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I don't know if they could "disappear" Snowden now. I mean, who has motive to make him disappear.
I totally agree with the discreting angle. I mean, we are seeing that already and we totally expected it.
But really, I think that the exposure of PRISM will do no more than the exposure of the AT&Treason+NSA thing from a few years back.
I don't think this will get fixed with lawsuits and law in general. The tech to spy is just too cheap and the intelligence is too valuable.
People just need to start covering their own asses better by using technical means to protect their privacy. Ie: cryptography, don't use "cloud" services, use open source when possible, patch yer shit, etc..