I love that scene. But it is worth noting that besides the signals intelligence (SIGINT) mission and Tailored Access Operations the NSA also has a mandate to se

I love that scene. But it is worth noting that besides the signals intelligence (SIGINT) mission and Tailored Access Operations the NSA also has a mandate to secure US communications. In other words, not just code breaking, but code making (and other facets of security). Of course, the NSA has also been caught a few times deliberately weakening the security of US communications in order to give themselves an edge in decryption when COTS products are used by adversaries (betting that no one else would be able to make use of the same weaknesses), but there are other agencies that aren't quite as… conflicted (eg. CISA).