Seems Canada's version of the NSA, Communications Security Establishment (CSE), is giving away for free a malware fighting tool they use to individuals and businesses that want to use it. They basically made it open source. Would you use it?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cse-canada-cyber-spy-malware-assemblyline-open-source-1.4361728
https://bitbucket.org/cse-assemblyline/
Interesting part of the article
Spying on spies
The possibility that CSE's own tool could be used to detect spy software of its own design, or that of its partners, is not lost upon the agency.
"Whatever it detects, whether it be cybercrime or [nation] states, or anybody else that are doing things — well that's a good thing, because it's made the community smarter in terms of defence," said Jones.
Nor does he believe that releasing Assemblyline to the public will make it easier for adversaries to harm the government, or understand how CSE hunts for threats — quite the opposite, in fact.
"We believe that the benefits far outweigh any risks and that we can still use this to be ahead of the threat that's out there."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cse-canada-cyber-spy-malware-assemblyline-open-source-1.4361728
https://bitbucket.org/cse-assemblyline/
Interesting part of the article
Spying on spies
The possibility that CSE's own tool could be used to detect spy software of its own design, or that of its partners, is not lost upon the agency.
"Whatever it detects, whether it be cybercrime or [nation] states, or anybody else that are doing things — well that's a good thing, because it's made the community smarter in terms of defence," said Jones.
Nor does he believe that releasing Assemblyline to the public will make it easier for adversaries to harm the government, or understand how CSE hunts for threats — quite the opposite, in fact.
"We believe that the benefits far outweigh any risks and that we can still use this to be ahead of the threat that's out there."
