full-disclosure - Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:58:31 +0300
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: valdis.kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks
 Against Iran

On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 03:08:24PM -0400, valdis.kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> The problem with backdoors is they can be abused.  What do you do
> if you give the NSA a shell, the Bad Guys abuse it, and it ends up with
> the US in a non-primary position of power?
> 
> (CALEA taps are *widely* exploited by the bad guys.  Why would
> giving the NSA a shell be any different?)

Interesting...
What about legal windows backdoors (NSA key)?
"Flame" used an unorthodox method of installation and I read
m$ are trying to fix WU after killing few certs.

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