So, DIODE is really cool. It looks like it does the same thing you'd do with IDA and a fuzzer. It only finds integer overflows, but still really cool. CodePhage just reads like a giant ball of WTF

Security is not tangible. It is a feeling. You should always be expecting attacks.

Their shit was being indexed by search engines. I'm willing to bet they didn't do anything right. This is more than likely a major HIPAA violation. You're right; it is about people and process. Their people and processes apparently suck.

Doesn't everyone get off with their pants down?

All right stop, Collaborate and listen. You're saying Ice is NOT back with my brand new invention?

I smell an MPAA honeydick.

I have no idea how you've been modded "5, Insightful". /. has turned into some new kind of circlejerk. The NSA is tasked with BOTH offensive and defensive roles, and they have a history of (under great scrutiny and suspicion) actually helping to improve security/encryption. The idea that offensive security professionals are motivated by their jealousy of "the makers" is fucking laughable. Characterizing the entire agency as "script kiddie perverts" shows that you lack a fundamental understanding of what the agency does, how it does it, and why it does it. Also, keep in mind that the NSA is an intelligence agency. They are not a police force or defense force of any type. There are other agencies charged with ensuring and assisting with the implementation of security measures.

IANAL, but I'm calling bullshit. I'm starting to think you're a troll, shill, or simply clueless about how the internet works.

Which is exactly the point. What is the cost to society of piracy? Any solution like what you're proposing that would work and have a noticeable effect on piracy would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

It's a big factor. Here is a piece from NPR covering a beat cop working in Skid Row. Skid Row is pretty much a worse case scenario for law enforcement. He's been patrolling the same neighborhood for almost 20 years. He's familiar with the community and they're familiar with him. It has made a huge impact on how the people and the police interact with one another. http://www.npr.org/2014/10/14/...

Correct, but look at the lists from the last 20-30 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

The NSA has an interest in strong encryption as much as they do in subverting encryption. Take as an example the work they did with (read "for") IBM on DES.

"It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA 'tweaks' actually improved the security of DES." -Bruce Schneier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.27s_involvement_in_the_design

Yeah, you're right. We should just give up.

I know they're a long way off, but the scientific predictions are way more terrifying.

From Wikipedia, "The heat death of the universe is a suggested ultimate fate of the universe, in which the universe has diminished to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and therefore can no longer sustain motion or life.'

WTF? I don't even.

So they made these comparisons and wrote all of these inflammatory things betting on the HOPE that Mann would sue them for defamation so they could drag all of these documents Mann's been alegedly hiding out into court? Is that what your saying? That seems like a bit of a stretch to me.