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Kaspersky, GCHQ, and The Intercept
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 07:06:40 -0400
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kaspersky/ POPULAR SECURITY SOFTWARE CAME UNDER RELENTLESS NSA AND GCHQ ATTACKS BY ANDREW FISHMAN <https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/andrew-fishman/> AND MORGAN MARQUIS-BOIRE <https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/morgan-marquis-boire/> @AndrewDFish <https://twitter.com/@AndrewDFish>@headhntr <https://twitter.com/@headhntr> Look, I just want to point out how terrible the reporting was that whole week from The Intercept. I know it's not Glenn Greenwald, but they really set a bar here in terms of "completely not understanding the issue". There's no "Attacks" here. Reverse Engineering isn't an attack. Reverse engineering is research. A better headline would be "GCHQ, like many thousands of other organizations, reverse engineers software so it can get its job done, but it also gets a warrant just in case." Yes, technically it needs a warrant. And also, technically, if a cop breaks any traffic laws, they need to put their lights on and be going to an emergency. But in reality, cops roll through stop signs all the time like everyone else, and sometimes they double park to get coffee. When you do shoddy reporting like this, you can't be taken seriously when report on bigger issues. And they buried the lede! GCHQ is "looking at Kaspersky AV to see if they continue to let virus files through their AV". Did The Intercept ask Kaspersky about that practice? Why would Kaspersky do that, I wonder? :) -dave
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