It says its spyware offers "world-class offensive techniques for information gathering".
So the more the government spends on offensive techniques, the greater its interest in making sure that security holes in widely used software remain unrepaired.
As well as having experts in-house skilled in offensive techniques, MWR InfoSecurity — a UK company that was founded in 2002 — is well known for its technical expertise and research.
Moreover, authoritarians have developed an arsenal that extends from technical measures, laws, policies, and regulations, to more covert and offensive techniques, such as targeted malware attacks and campaigns to coopt social media.
"Using offensive techniques against a state nation could prove extremely costly for a country, given revelations on the quantity of vulnerable critical national infrastructure systems".
An important takeaway from this controversy is that the movie industry must pay closer attention to detail, and not resort to the patently outdated and offensive techniques of Blackface and prosthetics to achieve fabricated likeness.
"It's likely offensive techniques are deployed in very limited scenarios, where the countries involved view the level of the threat from adversarial retaliation as being less effective," James Hadley, who now serves as CEO of Immersive Labs, told VICE News.
Forget conspiracy theories and consider the Lakers' superb offensive spacing technique, Bill Russell said, along with the fact that they are a knowledgeable and experienced group and that O'Neal, from his younger days to now, is "a whole different man".
Doctors are getting promising results from a new offensive, a technique called radio-frequency ablation.
Other files released by the unknown hacker crew on Sunday indicated various efforts to crack iPhones, including attempts to exploit the Newsstand app and use of publicly released jailbreak code, which releases iDevices from Apple control with offensive security techniques.
