I'm all for NSA having a more (much more!) defensive orientation. Wrote about it a lot. But some hospitals are running... Windows XP.
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This isn't either–or, right? Earlier disclosure would've helped, as would have improved patching practices.
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Also, perhaps NSA should do more than just *disclose* vulnerabilities in critical systems. For serious vulns, maybe it should help patch?
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I am absolutely on board that NSA should use its massive resources & brainpower to help secure all of us, above and beyond everything else.
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But this case reveals something else: how tech pushed the whole responsibility to the users for a product they ship "as is" at great profit.
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I agree. For cars we have safety regulations. Nothing equivalent for software that can fail with far greater consequences than cars.
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God your ignorance/arrogance is staggering. Most IC in exploitation business. Like asking CIA to disclose foreign assets to fix leaks.
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Its not a business it's a public service our government provides
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Its a manner of expression, but you know that. Yes access for intelligence is something the government provides as a public service.
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Protecting the people is their mission. They are culpable for this behavior.
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Those who's job is defense you are right. Those who's job is access you are not correct, gaining access provides protection.
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Said that backwards but government priorities need to put protection first
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They all do, but how they achieve that is different. Access shops can't have mindset of disclosure, they would lose most of their access.
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A vuln that threatens xp to server 2012 is a reckless thing to sit on. They deserve to lose access.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Were these flaws from your leaks?
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No, the source is a hacker group called "Shadow Brokers", they tried to sell it, but eventually released it for free when MS patched it.
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But, could They have gotten IT from Snowden?
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According to Shadow Brokers, they breached Equation Group who has ties to the NSA. Kaspersky Lab concluded that this seemed to be true. 1/2
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Snowden leaks have been used to confirm it as NSA malware, by looking at similarities in some numbers and code, but nothing more. 2/2
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