I think it's fair to say that they've helped create more secure computers but that's different from improving computer SCIENCE. Why? Because science is about o

I think it's fair to say that they've helped create more secure computers but that's different from improving computer SCIENCE. Why? Because science is about our shared understanding of how the world works. The NSA rarely shares many fundamental truths. They may help debug some crypto algorithms, but they rarely explain how and why they do it. So we're just as much in the dark before and after their help. If they want credit for improving science itself, they need to share much, much more.