Corporate undercover nation-state agents

[Cari Machet]

this is old news and fuck firstlook fucking ebay paypal pierre is a super
fucking neo-liberal capitalist pig that prosecuted the paypal14 asked for
millions in reparations he is a corporate warmonger

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 3:20 AM, <bluelotus at openmailbox.org> wrote:

> https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/10/core-secrets/
>
> "But the briefing document suggests another category of employees--ones who
> are secretly working for the NSA without anyone else being aware. This kind
> of double game, in which the NSA works with and against its corporate
> partners, already characterizes some of the agency's work, in which
> information or concessions that it desires are surreptitiously acquired if
> corporations will not voluntarily comply. The reference to "under cover"
> agents jumped out at two security experts who reviewed the NSA documents
> for The Intercept.
>
> "That one bullet point, it's really strange," said Matthew Green, a
> cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University. "I don't know how to interpret
> it." He added that the cryptography community in America would be surprised
> and upset if it were the case that "people are inside [an American] company
> covertly communicating with NSA and they are not known to the company or to
> their fellow employees."
>
> The ACLU's Soghoian said technology executives are already deeply
> concerned about the prospect of clandestine agents on the payroll to gain
> access to highly sensitive data, including encryption keys, that could make
> the NSA's work "a lot easier."
>
> "As more and more communications become encrypted, the attraction for
> intelligence agencies of stealing an encryption key becomes irresistible,"
> he said. "It's such a juicy target."
>
>


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