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100%. 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
by meowface 6y ago
100%. 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.