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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by alasdair_ on Friday May 12, 2017 @06:17PM (#14328356)
>To be completely fair, it's not the NSA's fault that software has faults. Its the software manufacturers'.

The NSA has a specific mission to secure the nation's infrastructure. In witholding key information from US companies, it's failing that mission.

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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by korethr on Friday May 12, 2017 @06:44PM (#14328537)
That's half the NSA's mission. Tt has another half and that is eavesdropping and getting into things. Those two missions are at odds with each other, and so the NSA has to make decisions about trade-offs. As these incidents show, the trade-offs the NSA has chosen to make have turned out to have been bad ideas.
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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by robin_reala on Friday May 12, 2017 @07:16PM (#14328667)
This is why the NCSC was split from GCHQ in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cyber_Security_Centre...
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