Operation BULLRUN said they were both backdooring systems and weakening standards to ensure they could get in. There's also been attacks facilitated by their ac

Operation BULLRUN said they were both backdooring systems and weakening standards to ensure they could get in. There's also been attacks facilitated by their activities. Thanks to Snowden, we don't have to speculate: NSA, FBI, and CIA are enemies of the state if our cybersecurity is concerned. They must always be assumed hostile. One exception I make is defense contractors that take money from them to build OSS tech. In that case, one can just scrutinize the tech itself. Most of the positive contributions in this area come from Galois Inc. Cryptol language is an example. On proprietary side, Rockwell Collins SHADE toolkit and AAMP7G CPU were likely NSA-funded to large degree.