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NSA is an intelligence agency. As a stakeholder in all of this, they have absolutely no benefit to disclose the backdoors. In fact, who says they aren't in part
by pearjuice 11y ago
NSA is an intelligence agency. As a stakeholder in all of this, they have absolutely no benefit to disclose the backdoors. In fact, who says they aren't in part responsible for said backdoors? We all know financial support for ideological gains is something American authorities excel at.
- A1kmm 11y agoTheir primary mission is to defend (including both protecting US information security and gathering intelligence) - cases like this show that they have compromised their direct information security defence mission to further their offensive capabilities.
- pdkl95 11y agoAccording[1] to Dan Geer[2], the intelligence community is all offense: Chris Inglis, recently retired NSA Deputy Director, remarked that if we were to score cyber the way we score soccer, the tally would be 462-456 twenty minutes into the game, i.e., all offense. I will take his comment as confirming at the highest level not only the dual use nature of cybersecurity but also confirming that offense is where the innovations that only States can afford is going on. [1] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt [2] (among other credentials) CISO at In-Q-Tel