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ryanmarsh on March 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: CIA malware and hacking tools

> We also know that the US's military spending (known budget) is something like 6x Russia's military spending, and we can imagine that intelligence spending is a similar multiple higher.

Payroll for 5,000 hackers is within the reach of many world governments I'd think.

Spooky23 on March 8, 2017 [–]

5,000 IT people in a government org is about $1B with base infrastructure.

No big deal.

ryanmarsh on March 8, 2017 | [–]

In the U.S. it is.

_lqaf on March 8, 2017 | | | [–]

Depends on where in the budget it (doesn't) appear.

Spooky23 on March 8, 2017 | | | [–]

No way. There are probably 7 US States that spend that much.

The Feds probably spend $700M just on Office 365.

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