[fixxer]

They do.

Obama campaign had a contract firm that implemented and enforced infosec. They even tossed USB keys in the parking lot to catch campaign workers that we're dumb enough to try them.

The problem is beyond rote security at this point. We're in the realm of talented, well financed threat actors with databases of 0days.

[balls187]

> The problem is beyond rote security at this point. We're in the realm of talented, well financed threat actors with databases of 0days.

State actors

[fixxer]

I think that is likely the case, but I don't know if that is an exclusive thing anymore. A lot of what I read about reminds me of 1970s sponsorship of various terror entities and revolutionaries.

[walrus01]

From a nation state actor standpoint it is probably a lot cheaper to pay gobs of money to a half-dozen antisocial young black hat types (that have been messing around with linux since age 12 in their bedroom in belarus), than to fund the PLO.

[fixxer]

Yep, and if you look at the carders in Russia, they have some very close ties with government. Perfect infrastructure for this shit.