Hacker and the State
by Ben Buchanan · first published 2020
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Reading about this saga in Ben Buchanan's book "The Hacker and the State" made me realize how every government agency (NIST in this case) seems to be always second fiddle to the "needs" of the NSA/national security apparatus. It seems clear from the book that there was a point…
on “RSA chief believed cryptographers’ warnings on Dual EC DRBG lacked merit (2014)” ↗For a recent take on the geopolitical effects of Stuxnet and many other cyber attacks, I can recommend The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Dr. Ben Buchanan. I found it to be a fascinating account of international cyber attacks with a clear, well-argued thesis. https://www.amazon.com/Hacker-State-Attacks-Normal-Geopoliti...
on “Stuxnet's Legacy Lives on in New Windows Bug” ↗I really enjoyed The Hacker and the State by Ben Buchanan. It explores why various nations pursue cyber operations the way they do.
on “U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise” ↗…something "positive" -- i.e. CSAM? As others have said elsewhere, it seems so out of the blue like they were pressured from somewhere, which I guess I default to assuming government. After reading "The Hacker and the State" by Ben Buchanan, it made me even more aware of how much depth and penetration there is of the private-government partnership in the US.
on “Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse” ↗…Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, Eric Rescorla, and Hovav Shacham, A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident, October 2016. Online: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hovav/dist/juniper.pdf [4] Ben Buchanan, The Hacker and the State, chapter 3, Building a Backdoor. Harvard University Press, February 2020.
on “Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level” ↗