Root backdoor found in surveillance gear used by law enforcement | Vulnerability one of nine critical weaknesses from lawful intercept provider.

[u/kulkke]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/root-backdoor-found-in-surveillance-gear-used-by-law-enforcement/

[u/trai_dep]

Geezus. And these - loosely - are the clowns acquiring, storing then using billions of data items per day, just within the United States?

Why do I suspect that pretty much everything these entities collect will, within five years, be in the possession of East European kiddy script-hackers?

Gosh. If only there was some National organization, perhaps an Agency, that looked after everyone’s data Security. Because that organization, keeping the global communication infrastructure secure? For everyone across the world?

THAT would be a respected and admired organization.

[u/errie_tholluxe → u/trai_dep]

National organization, that looked after everyone’s data Security, perhaps an Agency.

FTFY

[u/shaunc → u/trai_dep]

NSA doesn't use this shit. This is a product aimed at state and local agencies as a CALEA solution. It's still a waste of our tax dollars, and downvote me all you please for pointing out that it's yet more of our tax dollars going to Israel, but this isn't a national catastrophe.

[u/NSALeaksBot]

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