The NSA is holding a portfolio of undiscovered vulnerabilities, whether they've been planted by its operatives or discovered by its researchers. Old ones get di

The NSA is holding a portfolio of undiscovered vulnerabilities, whether they've been planted by its operatives or discovered by its researchers. Old ones get discovered independently and patched, new ones get created, all the time. Sending men in black or a top secret letter to a company and demanding a back door has to be the clumsiest possible way to go about introducing a vulnerability. It creates way too many people in the know, anyone could disclose it to researchers like OP who could then claim to have found it independently. It's way more effective to have moles on your payroll.