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Re:Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft W... by xrayzerone on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @01:51PM (#22047994)
And what do you think the end state of all that cybersecurity research is?
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Re:Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft W... by monoideism on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @02:07PM (#22048145)
NSA has long had an explicit offensive and defensive mandate. They even recently created a cyber defense directorate:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nsa-launche...

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Re:Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft W... by wolf550e on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @02:00PM (#22048084)
NSA has both attack and defense mandates and organizations. Currently, the attack org has priority, but it's not like the defense org does nothing. So if the attack org doesn't want a vuln, they can let the defense org reveal it for PR points.
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