top | item 22047994 (no title) xrayzerone | 6 years ago And what do you think the end state of all that cybersecurity research is? discuss order hn newest monoideism|6 years ago 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... wolf550e|6 years ago 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.
monoideism|6 years ago 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...
wolf550e|6 years ago 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.
monoideism|6 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nsa-launche...
wolf550e|6 years ago