"The military will not allow a vendor to insert itself into the chain of command by restricting the lawful use of a critical capability and put our warfighters at risk."
If Coruna is, in fact, a US hacking toolkit gone rogue, just how it got into foreign and criminal hands remains a mystery. But Cole points to the industry of brokers that may pay tens of millions of dollars for zero-day hacking techniques that they can resell for espionage, cybercrime, or cyberwar. Notably, Peter Williams, an executive of US government contractor Trenchant, was sentenced this month to seven years in prison for selling hacking tools to the Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero from 2022 to 2025. Williams’ sentencing memo notes that Trenchant sold hacking tools to the US intelligence community as well as others in the “Five Eyes” group of English-speaking governments—the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand—though it's not clear what specific tools he sold or what devices they targeted.
Daniel Veillard. Open source (MIT license).
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近日，南方周末记者视频采访了金暻铉教授，围绕他的新书讨论了后殖民主义、韩国近现代史、韩国电影文化等话题。在访谈中，最具情感浓度的一段对话发生在讨论“双重意识”（double consciousness）的时候。美国社会学家杜波依斯的“双重意识”理论是指黑人在白人主流社会中，不得不通过他者的眼光来看待自己。金暻铉认为韩国人的处境更为复杂——他们先后经历了对中国的文化崇拜、被日本殖民的语言抹除，以及美国语言霸权的持续影响，他们主动追随或被迫顺从，“韩国人的深层意识不是双层的，而是多层叠压的”，这造成了韩国人的心理底色是一种长期的“不安全感”和“不自在感”，“这种不自在促使他们不断地去模仿强者”。