PARIS (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says the exposure of malicious software allegedly linked to his former employer may be a message from Moscow.
Information security experts have been abuzz since an unknown party uploaded a suite of tools purported to have been stolen from the Equation Group of hackers, which some have tied to the powerful U.S. spy agency.
The Equation Group was exposed last year by antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab, which described it at the time as a “God of cyberespionage.” Many have since speculated that the NSA is behind the group.
As experts picked through the tools Tuesday, Snowden took to Twitter to say that the leak was “likely a warning” from Moscow to the United States.
The NSA did not return a message seeking comment.
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Nobody asked you. Shut up. Keep shuttin’ up.
God, do I loathe that traitorous little fucker.
Snowden is one of the great patriots of our times. I’d guess Russians did download the NSA hacking files.
Real Heros stand by their convictions and will suffer the consequences of their actions with dignity secure in the knowledge that what they did was right and welcome their day in court to vindicate their actions…
Snowden ran away like a coward to the welcoming embrace of a hostile state to escape ever having to mount a defense while water headed idiots lionize him while crying about transparency and hypocritically hiding in the shadows and whining about their “privacy” all the while releasing the private information of innocent people…
Snowden was a coward, is a coward, and will continue to be a coward, who should shut the hell up. And his fanboys are worse.
Time will tell not you.