Hypponen said "potentially" and it is an absolutely defensible statement. You go around poking holes in a system, don't be surprised if other people find the holes. You gonna trust the guy who hacked your machine to lock the door behind him on the way out?
>All the hyperbole about how this is somehow unique is really getting old.
The issue isn't that the spooks have developed some superweapon. The issue is that they've signaled intent and means to do mass espionage on citizens, not just at the network level, but at the machine level. This is as if your local law enforcement handed out burglars tools to all their officers so they could get into everyone's homes "to check for drugs". "Eh, burglars tools are nothing special" totally misses the point.
>All the hyperbole about how this is somehow unique is really getting old.
The issue isn't that the spooks have developed some superweapon. The issue is that they've signaled intent and means to do mass espionage on citizens, not just at the network level, but at the machine level. This is as if your local law enforcement handed out burglars tools to all their officers so they could get into everyone's homes "to check for drugs". "Eh, burglars tools are nothing special" totally misses the point.