...in their willingness to pay top dollar for more and better zero-day exploits, the spy agencies are helping drive a lucrative, dangerous, and unregulated cyber arms race, one that has developed its own gray and black markets. The companies trading in this arena can sell their wares to the highest bidder—be they frontmen for criminal hacking groups or terrorist organizations or countries that bankroll terrorists, such as Iran.I'm a bit overwhelmed at times by all the information that has been reported about the many US spy programs, agencies, the personalities involved, and the related high tech companies reaping big profits from these operations. This lengthy article presents a lot of the details of the 21st century's version of the military-industrial complex.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Monday, July 8, 2013
The Secret War
Click here to access article by James Bamford from Wired.