>The theory that the NSA and CIA can retain hacking tools for themselves, and keep the rest of the world in check was falsified a few years ago as well. They'r

>The theory that the NSA and CIA can retain hacking tools for themselves, and keep the rest of the world in check was falsified a few years ago as well. They're used to operating in the physical world. For example, that approach (until very recently) worked quite well for nukes. You can control physical things that cost money. Obviously this doesn't work for digital information with the internet. You see the same attitude every time they lement that cryptographic doesn't have backdoors. "Oh just make one for us, no one else will know how to use it"