Paul Vixie: How NSA tools emerged on the ‘deep web’

You can find some amazing things for sale if you know how to navigate the deep web. How about hacking tools taken from the National Security Agency? Bloomberg f...

Paul Vixie, chairman and CEO of Farsight Security.

You can find some amazing things for sale if you know how to navigate the deep web. How about hacking tools taken from the National Security Agency? Bloomberg first reported a group called the Shadow Brokers, possibly Russian, somehow got their hands on NSA software and is auctioning it off online. For analysis of what might be going on, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Paul Vixie, chairman and CEO of Farsight Security.

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