Comment by loxias
5 years ago
Google "NSA TAO" -- Tailored Access Operations. AIUI, among other things they're responsible for developing, discovering, and weaponizing exploits used to access high value targets -- sometimes through fun techniques like "Quantum Insert", a sort of faster-man-in-the-middle attack. The wealth of exploits released in the equation group hack should put all doubts to rest.
Spot on. I expect this was a designed-in feature, but if I could prove it, I wouldn't be able to do so without going to jail.
From public sources:
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-n...