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NSA sent coded messages through Twitter

Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 2 months ago to Government
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While this may not seem strange, it makes sense, but that a group called the Shadow Brokers stole their stuff? I thought the NSA was the top dog of communications, spying and stuff. Looks like they need to hire the people who broke in (or the Russians themselves), or upgrade from Macaffie.....
Hmm, maybe this was what was behind the Feds removal of Kasperky from all government computers?
SOURCE URL: https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/10/nsa-sent-coded-messages-through-twitter/

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 2 months ago
    Me dino is suddenly remembering a scene in some old war movie.
    Members of the French Underground hear a certain phrase on a radio channel the Nazis can also listen to.
    The eyes of the freedom fighters light up. Off they go with a whoop of joy to blow up railroad tracks in preparation of D-Day.
    Maybe that scene is from The Longest Day. Me dino don't really know.
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 2 months ago
      It was one of those, but I think it ws in several moviews about WW2, and it was always something weird, like, "The train to Montrose will be 6 hours late" or "The power plant at St Ives is not working today".
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 2 months ago
        Yeah, such a half-remembered confusion of just before D-Day French freedom fighter movie scenes kinda fuses together as old dino approaches his numeral 71 birthday next month.
        Viva la France! Now let's go blow something up! Wheee!
        Or as Indiana Jones said in his second-to-last not so belated sequel: "Nazis! I hate Nazis!"
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 6 years, 2 months ago
    The Personals columns of daily papers used to be a familiar "open" channel for many people to send coded messages. I just delivered an introductory paper to a computer security conference about Charles Babbage as a codebreaker. In his day (1830s), lovers sent enciphered messages in the Personals columns. Usually, it was a simple substitution or transposition.

    2. It is a principle of security that the guardian must secure all possible routes of compromise whereas the attacker needs to find just one.

    3. The NSA, CIA, etc., as well as Microsoft, Intel, etc., Chase, Berkshre Hathaway, the Federal Reserve, Deutsche Bank,... pretty soon you hit all of the top 100. But Shadow Brokers, Anonymous, and the others do not care about you or Galt's Gulch. Banks get robbed because that's where the money is.
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 2 months ago
      All true, in fact the crypto currency folks keep getting hit time after time, and their virtue is no one can steal your money with it being a crypto currency, but apparently, they do. They just had on go for 130 million, and they say "we may not be able to replace everyones losses". Duh.
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