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Re:Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft W... by cafxx on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:07PM (#22050180)
> Sources say this disclosure from NSA is planned to be the first of many as part of a new initiative at NSA dubbed "Turn a New Leaf," aimed at making more of the agency's vulnerability research available to major software vendors and ultimately to the public.

Sounds like "we find so many critical bugs... we don't need all of them to achieve our goals, so let's blow some of them for PR"

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Re:Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft W... by chance_state on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:27PM (#22050287)
I think it's more like, "We find so many critical bugs, let's blow some of them for PR once we discover that adversaries are using them too."
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Re:Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft W... by swarnie_ on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:20AM (#22053099)
Bull.... A more likely scenario is they've been sat on this for years and finally saw another actor using it in the wild.
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Re:Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft W... by chance_state on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:57AM (#22065681)
So... exactly what I said?
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