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		trolleyed on March 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Hunt Sys Admins They have resources, though every technique in this paper is very simple. There are some incredibly talented people out there, and not all of them work for the NSA.

Pitarou on March 21, 2014 [–]

I quite agree. Ultimately, it's all about the resources. Their budget is more than half that of NASA.

The "simple" techniques are enabled by some very sophisticated backend stuff that is just taken for granted in these slides.

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