I also suspect the author may have a possible or likely identification of some programmer(s) involved. While I am no fan of some of the things the US does, I d

I also suspect the author may have a possible or likely identification of some programmer(s) involved. While I am no fan of some of the things the US does, I don't bear these programmers the type of ill will that your encouragements of violence suggest. I think it's foolish to believe that every (sufficiently wealthy) government on earth doesn't have their own "Equation Group" writing stuff like this (or at least trying to).