Nations are engaging in a cyberweapons arms race, with agencies like the NSA prioritizing offensive capabilities over defense, fueling a lucrative 0-day market
Amid a global gold rush for digital weapons, the infrastructure of our daily lives has never been more vulnerable. Tweets: @hatr , @nicoleperlroth , @newyorker , @hoanssolo , @scottshanenyt , and @hatr Tweets: Hakan / @hatr : “In 2015, a former N.S.A. hacker, David Evenden, was part of a team that gained access to Michelle Obama's e-mails on behalf of the United Arab Emirates” https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth : The @NewYorker 's Jill Lepore reviews my book, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends,” our Feb 9. [Read through hands clasped tightly over eyes 👀 whilst ommmmmmmmmm-ing]. https://www.newyorker.com/... @newyorker : A new book by the cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth is interested in one particular plague—governments using hacking as a weapon of war—but it also raises the question of whether that's the root of a lot of other evils. https://nyer.cm/dXrrPJt Franz-Stefan Gady / @hoanssolo : „[T]he N.S.A. has a hundred analysts working on cyber offense for every analyst working on cyber defense." https://www.newyorker.com/... Scott Shane / @scottshanenyt : Can't wait to read this book by my former Snowden reporting pal https://twitter.com/... Hakan / @hatr : Hand to God I'd read articles and maybe even books about every single case described in this one paragraph alone https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...