Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ...
by jhall1468 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:16PM
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> They might have, but it's also entirely possible they would have decided it wasn't worth it
That's an enormous assumption based on zero evidence. The only resource the NSA is limited by is time. Money and man power (up to diminishing returns) are effectively limitless.
They were trying to skip a step, but there's absolutely no reason to believe they could have (and would have) done without through reverse engineering the binary. The NSA guy implied time was the major factor, and wanting the source certainly implies that was the case.
That's an enormous assumption based on zero evidence. The only resource the NSA is limited by is time. Money and man power (up to diminishing returns) are effectively limitless.
They were trying to skip a step, but there's absolutely no reason to believe they could have (and would have) done without through reverse engineering the binary. The NSA guy implied time was the major factor, and wanting the source certainly implies that was the case.