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Ok, I am not firm with any actual hacker tool. But I do know about software design in general. So I can imagine, that a very well designed, modular hacker weap
by hutzlibu 6y ago
Ok, I am not firm with any actual hacker tool.
But I do know about software design in general.
So I can imagine, that a very well designed, modular hacker weapon by the NSA is something they value and want to keep for themself.
0-days come and go. This is a seperate issue.
But having the whole world know how your tools run? Sounds like a nightmare. Because that allows for detection.
PLus the fact, script kiddies eventually will get their hands on it.
- meowface 6y ago100%. That's what I alluded to with: >weren't really a big deal for anyone besides NSA and CIA. It's an absolute nightmare if you're NSA or CIA. You're going to have to remake everything from scratch, pretty much. It'll be very tedious and will probably result in a lot of downtime and delays of other projects. It's like when that stealth Black Hawk crash-landed on Osama bin Laden's compound. (Though that was probably a lot more annoying and difficult to re-engineer than software.) I was just thinking about it in terms of a common media scaremonger narrative of them possessing tools that if leaked can in some way bestow magic powers or other unnatural abilities onto ordinary people. And that kind of is the case for major zero-days like ETERNALBLUE, but for general software tools, it's a total red herring.