> I have been very unimpressed with the quality of NSA "TAO's" tooling, and, when I have conversations with people closer to NSA offensive cyber stuff than I am

> I have been very unimpressed with the quality of NSA "TAO's" tooling, and, when I have conversations with people closer to NSA offensive cyber stuff than I am, what shakes out generally is that they people at the tip of that particular spear tend to be super young people in basically their first ever software job. Are you trying to find out who the TAO employees on HN are? They'll be itching to defend themselves.