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From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:37:29 -0400
So here is DIRNSA at AEI talking about, well, everything. http://bcove.me/r7tgbw0w . At first I was like "this is super lame - why is he going on about BackTrack and malware signatures?" But there's this thing about American spooks Neal Stephenson points out so well <http://www.euskalnet.net/larraorma/crypto/slide41.html> in Cryptonomicon, probably something they stole from the Brits, which is that they play as stupid as they think you can handle at all times. If you get three dudes from an intel background together, they'll each go in a circle pointing out how incapable, uninformed, and generally useless they are compared to everyone else there. So if you ask DIRNSA to give a speech, what you get is he'll point out that yes, he learned how to read, and at one point managed to boot a couple VM's and own one of them. And once you get over that, you can listen to his actual talk, which is pretty good really. It's prepared, of course, but there's some vision in it deep down (which I think will go unrealized), of a world where the NSA is a managed security service provider that operates at wire speed to do its job. During the questions session he demonstrates a rather interesting and subtle understanding of war and things that are not war but still change state behavior ("Diplomatic, economic, informational") is his best phrase imo. An interesting counterpoint to DIRNSA's talk is Bruce Schneier's RSA talk here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrjgXHAYvxk which is really better titled "what the hell happened in the last ten years while I was asleep?!?" but is worth watching. -dave -- INFILTRATE - the world's best offensive information security conference. April 2013 in Miami Beach www.infiltratecon.com
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