• brianorca@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is because NSA has two roles: eavesdropping on foreign adversaries, and protecting our internal systems from adversaries. Under the first role, they might introduce an exploit known only to themselves. Under the second, they help protect US systems from exploits known to others.

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      5 months ago

      And because of this it makes whatever they fuck with have unnecessary security issues.

      Also though they are using it to straight up spy on you whether foreign or not. They got in “trouble” for it once and pinky swore not to do it again.

      Fuck the NSA