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It's been catchy to look at the Snowden papers and all the trojans
coming out from "Western" governments and think that the 5 Eyes does
espionage in an unrestricted way the way the Chinese and Russian
Axis does. But they don't.<br>
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If they did, you'd see crowing reports from Kaspersky and Symantec
that they found information being stolen from Russian banks to aide
UK financial institutions. You'd see evidence in that M&A deals
would be going weirdly well for the UK using information that
clearly could only be gotten from hacking in the places Regin is
found. This isn't what you're seeing. You're seeing in Regin a focus
on looking at cell towers in areas where the UK is at war
(Afghanistan). <br>
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While Regin clearly can be used to steal information, it's not
stealing information from places where economic espionage is done.
This is the opposite of what you find when you look at Russian or
Chinese hacker teams, which often are clearly using the same
toolchain to gather military intelligence and economic espionage. As
I pointed out in <a
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/expert-here-are-4-things-edward-snowden-gets-wildly-wrong-about-the-nsa-2014-10">my
Business Insider article</a>, there's a big difference in the
motivations and effects of the respective teams.<br>
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Dave Aitel<br>
Immunity, Inc.<br>
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