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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.' "
(Score: 1) by moo kuh on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:17AM
You make some good points, hopefully you get modded up. It is generally true that coming up with the idea and proving it is generally the hard part (not always). On the flip side, now that a lot this is public, organizations can take steps to protect themselves. I will admit I did not RTFA (I came here from /.), but I wonder how many of these exploits are already being used by large criminal organizations and even corporations spying on each other.
(Score: 2) by jt on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:58PM
You're right that coming up with the good idea is not _always_ the hard part. Execution is important too, especially in the corporate espionage arena you mention here; organized crime can take risks that BigName, Inc. cannot (not for moral reasons, of course, merely due to practicalities of the cost-benefit analysis of being caught).