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shever73onJuly 18, 2021

I’m currently reading Nicole Pelroth’s book “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends”, which has a big section on the NSO Group and the Pegasus Project. If even part of what she uncovered is true, then digital privacy is effectively non-existent.

flakinessonMay 9, 2021

After reading "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends" [1], I feel the world working normally is rather a sheer luck. (Probably I'm very late to realize this, but anyway )

To me the only reasonable survival strategy is redundancy, but I have no idea how we can reach there.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/16355760...

azemetreonJune 3, 2021

This won't really work. Many governments and intelligence agencies will pay an extreme premium for 0days and basically hoard them for future use. How do you stop the CIA or NSA from buying 0days? How do you prevent foreign governments or actors from buying them?

The ability to inflict massive damage to a nations infrastructure is now part of modern weaponry. It's akin to asking militaries to stop buying weapons. We have basically split the atom here, we aren't going back.

If you don't want people hacking into your systems you need to go full Galactica, disabling networks and have stopgap measures on every critical device.

There's a great book that talks about this ecosystem (of buying bugs, vulnerabilities, and other 0days), among other cyber security related things:

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/16355760...

room505onMar 22, 2021

Jack Goldsmith spoke with New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth about her new book, "This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race." "They discussed the dark world of markets for zero-day vulnerabilities that are so vital in offensive cyber operations, the history of the markets, how they work, who the players are and why the United States doesn't control as much as it used to. They also discussed broader issues of U.S. cybersecurity policy, including the recent SolarWinds hack."