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XKeyscore, FoxAcid: APT lines are blurring

By Tom Parker
September 27, 2013

Despite the original, long-lost, but well-intentioned meaning of the security industry's favorite acronym, lines have become blurred to the extent that "APT" can now be so broadly applied by our adversaries to describe, well, us. Although this makes the term even more useless in conversations intended to characterize the specifics of an attack, it has been something I've argued for quite some time now and was my initial thought when news of Edward Snowden's escapades (and, specifically, XKeyscore, FoxAcid, et al.) broke.

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