Lidhur me nje lajm per nje ish-kontraktor te NSA, i cili ka marre me vete dhe ka nxjerre rreth 50 TB (50 000 GB) nga kjo agjensi, duke shenuar ne kete menyre incidentin me te madh ndonjehere deri me sot ne lidhje me sigurine e te dhenave. Kjo sasi kolosale mendohet se perben rreth 75% te gjithe arsenalit te NSA me programe te sofistikuar per pergjimet e llojeve nga me te ndryshmet.
Ngjarja eshte ironike ne shume nivele.
Lajmi eshte ketu.
Dialogjet komentuese me pas ne lidhje me kete , jane midis te tjerash, nje mal me gallate:
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*) This guy never stole any hacking tools. I am 100% sure that the NSA still has all their hacking tools, and has not lost use of them whatsoever. If this guy did indeed make unauthorized copies as alleged, that's all he did: he made copies. The tools are still there.
Unauthorized copying is not stealing, no matter how much some people try to insist that it is. This will never change.
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*) The problem isn't about piracy. The problem is what the recipient can do with that copy. The right people will be able to reverse engineer how the tools work to circumvent security systems.
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*) You might, if you don't want it to quietly phone home and let AOL know you're listening to an mp3. If your copy of winamp came from the NSA, and you're listening to 'DJ Ayatollah - Death to the Great Satan America.mp3' on endless repeat, you might want to be very, very careful about it phoning home.
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*) Well, it is a stolen copy- how about that. You use copy as a noun, but the contractor copied as a verb: he 'duplicated' things. NSA contractors are not to take things out of the office. So any exact copy now residing anywhere the original is not- is theft. Theft of a copy at least.
How about Identity Theft. Is not the original person still walking around, whilst ill-doers act up in their name?
If I duplicated your entire home, family members, bank accounts, memories, and did with them as I will... would you not consider mimicking & tarnishing of your life the 'theft' of your life? Or would you just shrug and say "well that's not the real me".
It's because OF the copied item's capabilities & 'brand association' that it's mere existence is defined by the word STOLEN. A stolen copy.
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*) Hey, if you can figure out how to make a duplicate of my bank account, and then spend that money, while my own bank account is unchanged, let me know. I wouldn't be upset about that at all.
And if you can figure out how to duplicate family members, that'd be a real feat too. I wonder if my girlfriend would mind if I had a duplicate of her? A duplicate of myself would be great too: I have more projects than I have time to complete. Two of me could get more stuff done around the house (and keep the girlfriend and her clone satisfied as well...).
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*) Next to a tombstone in the rhetorical grave yard, the soil stirs. An eerie shiver runs down your spine. A cold wind blows. With a moan of desolation the black dirt over the grave cracks open and the gnarled hand of this semantic ghoul rises. Like a snake it darts for your ankles, coils, and grabs. It threatens to pull you in. You whack it with a shovel and run like hell.
etj, etj...
