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Probably pretty chill internally. "The thing we knew would happen and that every expert said would happen happened."
by SomeBoolshit 5y ago
Probably pretty chill internally.
"The thing we knew would happen and that every expert said would happen happened."
- kafkaIncarnate 5y ago"It fell within the acceptable matrix risk parameters."
- azemetre 5y agoI think you may be surprised, in the NSA they refer to some exploits as NOBUS (nobody but us) where they earnestly believed that only they had the knowledge and capability to find and carry out certain exploits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS
- pc86 5y agoIt seems silly now, especially as the civilian bar for these types of exploits continually lowers, but it's not unreasonable for them to have believed something like this decades ago, especially before widespread computer usage.
- vmception 5y agoThe NSA is staffed by non-target candidates that would never get a meeting in Silicon Valley, largely from DC area universities. Although there is no real skills gap between target school graduates and non-targets, this observation also serves the dual purpose of undermining the NSA’s perceived omnipotence.
- datavirtue 5y agoThey are happy to turn your security into obscurity for their benefit--everything else be damned.
- cryptonector 5y agoUse of the NSA's private key for the Dual_EC's backdoor would have been NOBUS (unless it were stolen). Changing the Dual_EC backdoor's public key in shipping products would NOT have been NOBUS.