SN 1076: FAST16.SYS - Unmasking the NSA's Most Diabolical Digital Sabotage

What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare.

• Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack.
• Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war.
• Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI.
• GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5.
• Two miscellaneous AI thoughts.
• A bunch of terrific listener feedback.
• Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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