The Equation Group hack underscores the fact that the NSA is not a perfect fortress. A future leak like the Shadow Brokers’ could lead to even more harmful security vulnerabilities being made public. Or perhaps disclosure won’t happen publicly online: powerful nation-states may hack into NSA systems to steal this information–or offer significant financial compensation to insiders willing to pass on secrets–and then use it secretly. Even if that doesn’t happen, without public data on the so-called rate of “bug collision”, we have to take the NSA’s word that the security vulnerabilities it uncovers will never be discovered by an unfriendly government and used for spying, or by criminals and used for malicious hacking.
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The U.S. government is an unfriendly government and a band of criminals, so the NSA is by definition full of crap.
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you. Trust me.”
Ellen,
Don’t do that to me. Those are terrifying words.
Although I seem to visualise whoever is saying them wearing body armour and pointing a gun for some reason.