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NSA Snooping Tactics will be Copied by Criminals

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the old-crooks-meet-the-new-crooks dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"Schneier: NSA snooping tactics will be copied by criminals in 3 to 5 years. If you thought NSA snooping was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet: online criminals have also been watching and should soon be able to copy the agency's invasive surveillance tactics, according to security guru Bruce Schneier.

'The NSA techniques give about a three to five year lead on what cyber-criminals will do,' he told an audience at the RSA 2014 conference in San Francisco. 'These techniques for exfiltrating data aren't magical, they are just expensive. Everything we know about technology is that it gets cheaper. So the notion of putting up a fake cell tower or wireless access point, of jumping air gaps, you're going to see this stuff it's really just a matter of time.' "

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by gishzida on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:13AM

    by gishzida (2870) on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:13AM (#9602) Journal

    Schneier showed up at the RSA conference especially with all the noise he's been making about the NSA and Friends. After all RSA did take what is seen as a bribe to make crypto weaker. Giving a talk like that is kinda like "belling the cat" in his own home-- you might be right and you might get away with it but you can pretty well bet that the cat is going to get even some how.

    In "NSA Amerika" cat bells you... and you like it.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:48AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:48AM (#9617) Homepage Journal
    Bingo. To be honest I'm a little disappointed. His boycott could have made RSA's reputation weaker. Mikko Hypp&ouml;nen did the right thing.
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  • (Score: 1) by neagix on Sunday March 02 2014, @12:31PM

    by neagix (25) on Sunday March 02 2014, @12:31PM (#9640)

    his point was not that much interesting for me. The same was said for Stuxnet and Flame by their analysts e.g. that soon criminals would start predating the technology and strategy

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:09PM (#9687)

    "Schneier showed up at the RSA conference especially with all the noise he's been making about the NSA and Friends."

    Because over the past several years Schneier has been investing in himself to become a media personality rather than a security professional with anything meaningful to contribute. His income now comes from making appearances at conferences and commenting on cable news channels rather than being a security professional.