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Re:Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on suppor... by hexadecimated on Saturday April 15, 2017 @07:25AM (#14120323)
Room 641A wasn't a software vulnerability trying to hide in plain sight, it was a secret network tap.
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Re:Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on suppor... by bigtimeidiot on Saturday April 15, 2017 @07:39AM (#14120357)
>it was a secret network tap

...trying to hide in plain sight, implemented by a major corporation so nation states cold exploit customers.

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Re:Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on suppor... by hl5 on Sunday April 16, 2017 @06:36AM (#14125242)
It's unlikely the NSA would illegally infiltrate only one multinational corporate entity given the exposed operational success.
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Re:Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on suppor... by partycoder on Saturday April 15, 2017 @10:05PM (#14123967)
Going back to your original comment

> This idea that Microsoft is deliberately introducing bugs into its software so nation states can exploit them is so absurd, it really is tinfoil hat conspiracy theory ludicrousness

Replace Microsoft with AT&T and suddenly it makes sense?

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