{"id":77516,"date":"2015-07-14T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:33:36","slug":"tla-does-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/tla-does-good\/","title":{"rendered":"TLA Does Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TLA<\/a>ZDNet<\/a> <\/em>reports<\/a> that in the last batch of Snowden<\/a> documents, there may finally be some evidence that some TLA’s<\/a> were doing some good. They spied on criminals too<\/strong>. Apparently one Snowden\u00a0document<\/a> boasts of how “criminals” can be found through a TLA program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"some<\/a>Using this program TLAs can identify cyber attackers<\/strong>. ZDNet<\/em> says that malicious users causing a “distributed denial-of-service” or DDoS attack<\/strong>, where a group of people overload a server or network with a flood of network traffic can be traced and identified. The TLA also used its program to troll online criminal forums<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, for law-abiding U.S. citizens, none of the Snowden documents to date have shown that the info collected on criminals was used to stop cyber<\/a> attacks<\/a> or was passed on to law enforcement to take action.<\/em><\/p>\n

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