Various private companies within the U.S. (such as Endgame Systems) sell computer hacking software tools (such as zero days exploits) to both multiple different federal governments and also to the global hacking community. Of course, each of these cyber arms dealers cooperates with the U.S. government or else they would be shut down. Well, the U.S. government knows (in "theory") how to add "data tracers" to these hacking tools before they are sold, and these tracers (such as those from the software security firm Nouvou) can track both the origin and the transfer of digital data - like a history or pedigree of this data. This means that if hacking attempts originate from computers within China, North Korea, etc. then it is possible to follow the trace back to see which exact computers were used for these hacking attempts.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:26:21 +0000
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