Just try not to be naive when trying to understand espionage and counterespionage. A clever strategy is to give the adversary what they want, while profiting fr

Just try not to be naive when trying to understand espionage and counterespionage. A clever strategy is to give the adversary what they want, while profiting from it. Let them have the feeling they're winning while they're actually losing. 0 days may be real and the exploits may be real too. But maybe the higher objective was to make people believe that the NSA operates regularly through 0 days, that there's no preferential disclosure of bugs between them and Microsoft, and that they do not rely on RNG/crypto/hardware/software tricks or backdoors. We will never have the means to truly know if any of that is the case. So while the leak might be real, it could be still be fake in the sense that is not representative of reality in terms of how they operate. Then, you do not fully know if running the exploits come with unexpected side effects put there by the authors. I am very skeptical of high profile leaks with full media coverage such as this one, as well as Assange, Snowden, etc. Maybe the information is true but cherry-picked, and potentially mixed with false information. Do not underestimate people that make a living dealing with classified information and asymmetric information.