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Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. To Its Core
- gtcode 9y agoDuplicate. Vibe from comments here was clearly anti-NSA, anti-surveillance.
- Johnny555 9y agoI'm not anti-NSA, I'd be pro-NSA if they actually helped improve national security -- like by reporting discovered flaws to software makers instead of sitting on them and keeping them quiet in the believe that no one else will discover them.... or worse, supposedly getting (or coercing) companies to install flaws that the NSA can exploit.
- gtcode 9y agoDidn't they respond to this already? Spying is what they do, and as far as I recall, the consensus is that they do need, per their mission, to hoard some degree of zero days, but that they should not hoard so tightly. If this understanding is wrong, I apologize.
- Johnny555 9y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15681545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15681545