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Edward Snowden Quotes

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“NSA is often lurking undetected for years on the C2 and ORBs (proxy hops) of state hackers. This is how we follow their operations.”
— Edward Snowden
“What's new? NSA malware staging servers getting hacked by a rival is not new. A rival publicly demonstrating they have done so is.”
— Edward Snowden
“This is how we steal their rivals' hacking tools and reverse-engineer them to create "fingerprints" to help us detect them in the future.”
— Edward Snowden
“The hack of an NSA malware staging server is not unprecedented, but the publication of the take is. Here's what you need to know: (1/x)”
— Edward Snowden
“Knowing this, NSA's hackers (TAO) are told not to leave their hack tools ("binaries") on the server after an op. But people get lazy.”
— Edward Snowden
“Why did they do it? No one knows, but I suspect this is more diplomacy than intelligence, related to the escalation around the DNC hack.”
— Edward Snowden
“This leak is likely a warning that someone can prove US responsibility for any attacks that originated from this malware server.”
— Edward Snowden
“TL;DR: This leak looks like a somebody sending a message that an escalation in the attribution game could get messy fast.”
— Edward Snowden
“Here's where it gets interesting: the NSA is not made of magic. Our rivals do the same thing to us -- and occasionally succeed.”
— Edward Snowden
“Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility. Here's why that is significant:”
— Edward Snowden
“That could have significant foreign policy consequences. Particularly if any of those operations targeted US allies.”
— Edward Snowden
“Accordingly, this may be an effort to influence the calculus of decision-makers wondering how sharply to respond to the DNC hacks.”
— Edward Snowden
“Bonus: When I came forward, NSA would have migrated offensive operations to new servers as a precaution - it's cheap and easy. So? So...”
— Edward Snowden
“NSA traces and targets malware C2 servers in a practice called Counter Computer Network Exploitation, or CCNE. So do our rivals.”
— Edward Snowden
“The undetected hacker squatting on this NSA server lost access in June 2013. Rare public data point on the positive results of the leak.”
— Edward Snowden
“Particularly if any of those operations targeted elections.”
— Edward Snowden
“You're welcome, @NSAGov. Lots of love.”
— Edward Snowden
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