…the DHS is accused of attempting to break into the State of Georgia secured election database.
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Aside from the hacking specific stuff almost anything useful to a system
administrator for setting up and administering networks will also be useful for
exploring them. This includes familiarity with the windows command prompt and unix
shell, basic scripting skills, knowledge of ldap, kerberos, active directory,
networking, etc.
According to revelations about the QUANTUM program, the NSA can “shoot” (their words) an exploit at any target it desires as his or her traffic passes across the backbone. It appears that the NSA and GCHQ were the first to turn the internet backbone into a weapon; absent Snowdens of their own, other countries may do the same and then say, “It wasn’t us. And even if it was, you started it.”
“- and a phone call from Bill Gates of Microsoft offering him a job, which he turned down.” New Tech… Harnessing human computation Luis von Ahn helped save the internet from spammers. His larger quest is to put internet chores…