> The next question is why didn’t the high end shops spending a ton of money and recruiting effort on crypto and state malware like NSA .. or Russia(?) figure t

> The next question is why didn’t the high end shops spending a ton of money and recruiting effort on crypto and state malware like NSA .. or Russia(?) figure this out already or did they There's no way to know. But the NSA (at least) has a documented history of making crypto breakthroughs and keeping them secret (e.g. public key crypto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classified_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classi..., differential cryptanalysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis#His...).