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The NSA absolutely does have two, somewhat contradictory, missions; they're tasked with both offense and defense. One is "spying", or more formally "signals int
by wool_gather 7y ago
The NSA absolutely does have two, somewhat contradictory, missions; they're tasked with both offense and defense. One is "spying", or more formally "signals intelligence" a.k.a. SIGINT; the other is indeed "network defense". Until fairly recently it was in essence two organizations loosely joined administratively. You can read some more here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/02/nsa_reorganizin.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/02/nsa_reorganiz...