>Seriously. This isn't even bad....There is no need to blow normal research and security work out of proportion. Is normal security research done with the goal

>Seriously. This isn't even bad....There is no need to blow normal research and security work out of proportion. Is normal security research done with the goal of finding/creating holes with the purpose of keeping them secret in order to use them as attack vectors without letting the owners of the compromised systems know about the vulnerabilities? What's bad about this is the purpose of the research (not to discover and strengthen security, but instead to destroy it), combined with the weaponization of it (the entire goal of doing the research is to use the exploits), and the actor carrying out the attacks (the state). It's obvious on its face why this is alarming.