So, did the NSA, CIA, etc. revelations over the past several years actually hurt the US tech industry?
>>62159477
It didn't do jack shit. The general populace doesn't give a single fuck. They are immune to change; afraid of it. The response (or lack thereof) is complete proof that every dystopian future you can imagine is well within the realm of possible reality.
They cost Cisco billions in sales.
The NSA is the enemy of American tech corporations.
>>62159842
>They cost Cisco billions in sales
Still the wage enslavers expects me to have a ccna
>>62159477
people dont listen to terrorists
>>62161079
>>62160347
>ccna
having a certification on botnets
literally a botnet
>>62159537
what can the populace do anyway? there's no single responsible party. by diffusing responsibility all over government and industry like that, there can't be an easy scapegoat
the only way in my mind there would be change - and I really wish it doesn't come to that - would be if the backdoors were used against the people who created them. for instance CEOs and government agency personal info and databases dumped, and the hackers revealed they used the creators' tools. wannacry was a sort-of kind-of proof of concept, but it was used more against bystanders (and could have been used against you or me) rather than against the people who created those weapons.
>>62161231
You can't. Thats what the intel ME killswitch that was found is, so you can't use the backdoors on the people who put it there.