The Spyware Wars

(This is a rough draft, so excuse the lack of editing and / or coherence at points)

The news this week is full of alleged government interference with a certain exiled government leaders computers.

While there is sufficient evidence of  targeting by state sponsored actors, I don’t necessarily agree with  everything they wrote in the report, or all their findings.  While there is merit to discussion about that, its probably safer to avoid the topic, and examine how the attacks worked, and what we can do to avoid or mitigate events like that.

The actual report can be read here in PDF format – http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-746.html

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