Hackers like a lot of things made by them, SELinux and Ghidra are two example. Very good products. SELinux protects billions of devices. I don’t think the NSA

Hackers like a lot of things made by them, SELinux and Ghidra are two example. Very good products. SELinux protects billions of devices. I don’t think the NSA invented Bitcoin, there is no evidence of this. It does however serve the purposes of information assurance mission by generating some real world metrics of the cost, in both energy and compute/memory, and also an early warning and bounty system on SHA2 and ECDSA sigs.