[Dailydave] Kaspersky, GCHQ, and The Intercept

[Dave Aitel]

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kaspersky/


  POPULAR SECURITY SOFTWARE CAME UNDER RELENTLESS NSA AND GCHQ ATTACKS

BY ANDREW FISHMAN
<https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/andrew-fishman/> AND MORGAN
MARQUIS-BOIRE
<https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/morgan-marquis-boire/> 
@AndrewDFish <https://twitter.com/@AndrewDFish>@headhntr
<https://twitter.com/@headhntr>


Look, I just want to point out how terrible the reporting was that whole
week from The Intercept. I know it's not Glenn Greenwald, but they
really set a bar here in terms of "completely not understanding the
issue". There's no "Attacks" here. Reverse Engineering isn't an attack.
Reverse engineering is research. A better headline would be "GCHQ, like
many thousands of other organizations, reverse engineers software so it
can get its job done, but it also gets a warrant just in case."

Yes, technically it needs a warrant. And also, technically, if a cop
breaks any traffic laws, they need to put their lights on and be going
to an emergency. But in reality, cops roll through stop signs all the
time like everyone else, and sometimes they double park to get coffee.

When you do shoddy reporting like this, you can't be taken seriously
when report on bigger issues. 

And they buried the lede! GCHQ is "looking at Kaspersky AV to see if
they continue to let virus files through their AV". Did The Intercept
ask Kaspersky about that practice? Why would Kaspersky do that, I wonder? :)

-dave


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