FBI Investigates Breach That May Have Hit Its Wiretapping Tools (theregister.com) 21
The FBI is investigating a breach affecting systems tied to wiretapping and surveillance warrant data, after abnormal logs revealed possible unauthorized access to law-enforcement-sensitive information. "The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond," a spokesperson for the bureau said. "We have nothing additional to provide." The Register reports: [W]hile the FBI declined to provide any additional information, it's worth noting that China's Salt Typhoon previously compromised wiretapping systems used by law enforcement. Salt Typhoon is the PRC-backed crew that famously hacked major US telecommunications firms and stole information belonging to nearly every American.
According to the Associated Press, the FBI notified Congress that it began investigating the breach on February 17 after spotting abnormal log information related to a system on its network. "The affected system is unclassified and contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, such as pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of FBI investigations," the notification said.
According to the Associated Press, the FBI notified Congress that it began investigating the breach on February 17 after spotting abnormal log information related to a system on its network. "The affected system is unclassified and contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, such as pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of FBI investigations," the notification said.
Backdoors to encrypted communications but only ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah sure, you can trust is with backdoors to encrypted communications but only for the good guys because they know how to take good care of such important mechanisms.
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Yeah sure, you can trust is with backdoors to encrypted communications but only for the good guys because they know how to take good care of such important mechanisms.
Yes, yes of course. By the way, if I sold these backdoors integrated into a simple but effective interface on the black market, how much could I expect to get? Asking for a friend.
Re:Backdoors to encrypted communications but only (Score:4, Funny)
By the way, if I sold these backdoors integrated into a simple but effective interface on the black market, how much could I expect to get?
Do you expect an answer in jail time or in dollars?
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By the way, if I sold these backdoors integrated into a simple but effective interface on the black market, how much could I expect to get?
Do you expect an answer in jail time or in dollars?
Dollars please. I mean, that’s what the friend said.
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bitcoin please, money laundering has moved on from the dollar.
Interesting... (Score:2)
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It's turtles all the way down.
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This likely has the FBI in an absolute panic. Their abuses of the surveillance apparatus are almost certainly now known by an unknown entity, and can be used as blackmail or they can become a new wikileak. I doubt they care what was done with it as much as they care about what is known about the FBI itself and how they abuse the system on the regular.
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So, the agency doing unauthorized and illegal access to citizen and companies data suffered unauthorized and illegal access to its data?
No, that’s fake news. It’s perfectly legal now because the buyers really paid good money and the president got his cut.
TRANSLATION (Score:2)
"The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks"
TRANSLATION: "The password "12345" wasn't enough to stop those Latvian hackers from 4Chan"
"and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond,"
TRANSLATION: "We called Bob at 11PM on a Saturday night to come in and figure out what the fuck happened"
a spokesperson for the bureau said. "We have nothing additional to provide."
TRANSLATION: "What part of 'We don't know what the fuck happened' wasn't clear the first time?"
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TRANSLATION: "We called Bob at 11PM on a Saturday night to come in and figure out what the fuck happened"
a spokesperson for the bureau said. "We have nothing additional to provide."
So which LLM is licensed under Bob? I’m getting confused as to which bottomless pit of evil I should attribute this one to.
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TRANSLATION: "We called Bob at 11PM on a Saturday night to come in and figure out what the fuck happened"
a spokesperson for the bureau said. "We have nothing additional to provide."
So which LLM is licensed under Bob? I’m getting confused as to which bottomless pit of evil I should attribute this one to.
Ultimately, this one is on the bottomless pit of evil known as the United States Government. The Enforcement Arm specifically. The FBI and CIA are basically abuse mechanisms wrapped in legal robes to begin with, and so long as they use those abuses against "the bad guys" we all pretend they're good guys. Gonna be harder to pretend when whatever got tapped ends up leaked all over the internetwebz, but we're resilient. We'll get back to pretending they're the good guys before you know it.
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man!!! we have really gone down the wrong (rabbit) hole
You gotta understand (Score:5, Informative)
That is after firing [washingtonexaminer.com] all the agents who had a clue.
They just don't have time to patch.
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This isn't helpful. Esp when Kash is still nursing a wicked hangover from chugging beers with his bros. Maybe we can revisit this topic around 3pm; just make sure we wrap it up before happy hour.
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