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Is it just me, or is it amazing that they're releasing this for free? Even Canadian SPY organizations are friendly!
by danesparza 9y ago
Is it just me, or is it amazing that they're releasing this for free? Even Canadian SPY organizations are friendly!
- nerdshoe 9y agoAnd it didn't even come by way of Russia.
- rphlx 9y agoA cynic, and, perhaps, a realist could consider their motivation to be fairly similar to that of a private blackhat attempting to purge foreign malware on hosts that they own, or may want to own. Exclusive control being always preferable to competing control. I'd be far more impressed and grateful if these state services released disclosures and actual patches for complex zero-day vulns, particularly in unmaintained, widely deployed closed-source products such as WinXP. 8-Ball says that is 'Unlikely' though.
- kaybe 9y agoI don't think I trust foreign intelligence agencies enough to install their software on my devices. Sure, they probably also release stuff not under their name and not open, but still.