Sophisticated malware has been spying on computers since 2008(probably gov created)

[aGameOfThrones]

Highly sophisticated malware isn't limited to relatively high-profile sabotage code like Stuxnet -- sometimes, it's designed to fly well under the radar. Symantec has discovered Regin, a very complex trojan that has been spying on everyone from governments to individuals since at least 2008. The malware is highly modular, letting its users customize their attacks depending on whether they need to remote control a system, get screenshots or watch network traffic. More importantly, it's uncannily good at covering its tracks. Regin is encrypted in multiple stages, making it hard to know what's happening unless you capture every stage; it even has tools to fight forensics, and it can use alternative encryption in a pinch. Researchers at Symantec suspect that the trojan is a government-created surveillance tool, since it likely took "months, if not years" to create.

If it is meant for spying, though, it's not clear just who wrote the malware or why. Unlike Dragonfly and other instances of professionally-made malware, Regin's origin hasn't been narrowed down to a particular country or region. About half of the infections have taken place in Russia and Saudi Arabia, but you can also find victims across India, Iran and multiple European nations. Also, it's definitely not limited to telecoms or other high-value targets -- 48 percent of known victims are people and small businesses. While Regin could easily be part of an online espionage campaign, it's hard to rule anything out at this point.


http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/23/regin-malware/

[Anti Federalist]

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[Natural Citizen]

http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/UncleDearest/50_s_Vintage_Red_Royal_Quiet_De_Luxe_Typewriter.jp g

Countries are actually starting to go back to this. True story. I don't know if I posted anything on it but they are. It's interesting.

[Natural Citizen]

Here you go. Heh...




Amid the worsening Berlin-Washington spy row, German politicians are considering going back to old-fashioned manual typewriters for confidential documents to protect national secrets from American NSA spooks.




‘No joke’: Germany mulls using typewriters to combat US snooping (http://rt.com/news/173020-germany-typewriter-spying-nsa/)


Russia too... The Typewriter Is Back — to Save Privacy (http://mashable.com/2013/07/11/typewriters-are-back-russia/)




You know how to make sure a government agency — or if you are a government agency, then Wikileaks — won't eventually read everything you type? By dumping your laptop and clacking the keys on something like an old-fashioned Selectric, then hand-delivering the result to your correspondent.

That appears to be the rationale behind the Russian government's decision to purchase new typewriter equipment.



There are a few more. I don't feel like digging them back up at the moment but you get the idea.

Well....actually, you already had it. Heh...

The White House Is 'Very Nervous' About Russia's New Ability To Evade NSA Spying (http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-new-ability-to-evade-us-spying-2014-3)

I imagine they'll be really nervous when all of these countries get their independent models for international finance clearing figgered out. Cripes, we'll be funding "cyber-security" legislation out the wazoo. I mean, all of that happens in space. Right? Ah well. For another day, I suppose. Of course, yesterday is another day too so...yeah...

[FindLiberty]

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