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NSA Hacked? Really?
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:54:21PM -0300, juan wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:32:00 +0000
> Crypto <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Reddit is going nutz over articles like this...
> >
> > http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-hack-nsa-linked-equation-group
> >
>
> " hackers are...asking for 1 million bitcoin
>
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/group-claims-to-hack-nsa-tied-hackers-posts-exploits-as-proof/
There is a link and screenshot of the original announcement.
As I read it, public release is fallback option in case there is no
winner in the auction and it raised at least million.
This claim looks weird:
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While it wasn't immediately possible for outsiders to prove the
posted dataâ??mostly batch scripts and _poorly coded_ python scripts
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