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NSA Snooping Tactics will be Copied by Criminals

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:30AM   
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.' "

• Re:They're doing it already (Score: 3, Interesting) by jt on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:05PM

  by jt (2890) on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:05PM (#9685)

  I would be deeply shocked if the NSA and their three-letter buddies are not carefully monitoring what the blackhats are doing out in the Real World. They have the advantage that they can take all the public domain techniques, but don't have to give back their own proprietary inventions. Kind of a BSD v GNU arrangement :)

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