{"id":5309,"date":"2015-02-05T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2015-02-05T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:58:17","slug":"western-spy-agencies-secretly-rely-on-hackers-for-intel-and-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5309","title":{"rendered":"WESTERN SPY AGENCIES SECRETLY RELY ON HACKERS FOR INTEL AND EXPERTISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/02\/04\/demonize-prosecute-hackers-nsa-gchq-rely-intel-expertise\/\" target=\"_blank\">WESTERN SPY AGENCIES SECRETLY RELY ON HACKERS FOR INTEL AND EXPERTISE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The U.S., U.K. and Canadian\u00a0governments characterize hackers as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/4\/9\/2930626\/yochai-benkler-anonymous-cybersecurity-laws\">a criminal menace<\/a>, warn of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052970204059804577229390105521090\">threats they allegedly pose<\/a>\u00a0to critical infrastructure, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/jul\/10\/gary-mckinnon-hacking-prosecution-us\">aggressively prosecute<\/a>\u00a0them, but they are also secretly exploiting their information and expertise, according to top secret documents.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, the surveillance agencies\u00a0are obtaining the content of emails by monitoring hackers as they breach email\u00a0accounts, often without notifying the hacking victims of these breaches.\u00a0\u201cHackers are stealing the emails of some of our targets\u2026 by collecting the hackers\u2019 \u2018take,\u2019 we . . .\u00a0\u00a0get access to the emails themselves,\u201d reads one top secret 2010 National Security Agency document.<\/p>\n<p>These and other revelations about the intelligence agencies\u2019 reliance on hackers are\u00a0contained in documents\u00a0provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The documents\u2014which come from the\u00a0U.K. Government Communications Headquarters agency and NSA\u2014shed new light on the various means used by intelligence agencies to exploit hackers\u2019 successes and learn from their skills, while also raising questions about whether governments have overstated the threat posed by some hackers.<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0looking out for hacking conducted\u00a0\u201cboth by state-sponsored and freelance hackers\u201d and riding on the coattails of hackers, Western intelligence agencies\u00a0have gathered what they regard as<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>valuable content:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERN SPY AGENCIES SECRETLY RELY ON HACKERS FOR INTEL AND EXPERTISE The U.S., U.K. and Canadian\u00a0governments characterize hackers as\u00a0a criminal menace, warn of the\u00a0threats they allegedly pose\u00a0to critical infrastructure, and\u00a0aggressively prosecute\u00a0them, but they are also secretly exploiting their information and expertise, according to top secret documents. In some cases, the surveillance agencies\u00a0are obtaining the content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3226,1543,249,3225,746,765,3224],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-computer-hackers","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-edward-snowden","tag-hackers","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","tag-western-spy-agencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}