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Piracy and Secrecy

2017-10-25 16:11:32.567881+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Kaspersky Lab: Preliminary results of the internal investigation into the alleged incident reported by U.S. media, in which Kaspersky is claiming that the leak of the NSA documents came because the user turned off the virus checker, downloaded and installed a pirated copy of Microsoft Office, turned back on the virus checker, at which point the virus checker identified a .zip file (containing the NSA documents) as infected, and uploaded it to Kaspersky Labs for further inspection.

Same press release hosted at The Intercept.

The Intercept: NSA worker's software piracy may have exposed him to Russian spies. Apparently it exposed him to Israeli spies...

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