Treasury Department Warns Against Paying Ransomware Hackers
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Among the government’s wilder Mitre orders: a prototype tool that can hack into smartwatches, fitness trackers and home thermometers for the purposes of homeland security; software to collect human fingerprints from social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the FBI; support in building what the FBI calls the biggest database of human anatomy and criminal history in the world; and a study to determine whether someone’s body odor can show they’re lying.
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Security researchers will have a way to report flaws in U.S. government websites without fear of prosecution, federal cyber officials say
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With US intelligence already having conducted such “false flag” cyberattacks through its UMBRAGE program, which allows them to place the “fingerprints” of Chinese, Russian and Iranian-affiliated hackers on cyberattacks that the U.S. actually conducts, any forthcoming cyberattack should be thoroughly investigated before blame is assigned to any state actor. Any such investigation would do well to first look at whether the CTI League was given access to the targets.
PalPal founder and Facebook director Peter Thiel, a prominent supporter of Donald Trump has attacked the President’s plans to undermine encryption.
— Read on www.vpncompare.co.uk/peter-thiel-trump-encryption/
Translation: Only Palantir can have access to your information and sell it to whom they please!