NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN

New submitter Reverand Dave writes "The U.S. government – particularly the National Security Agency – is often regarded as having advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities. But that doesn't mean that they're above bringing in a little outside help when it's needed. A newly public contract shows that the NSA last year bought a subscription to the zero-day service sold by French security firm VUPEN. The contract, made public through a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock, an open government project that publishes a variety of such documents, shows that the NSA bought VUPEN's services on Sept. 14, 2012. The NSA contract is for a one-year subscription to the company's 'binary analysis and exploits service.'"

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Re:The truth gets out...

[girlintraining]

It's not as conspiracy-theory cool as magical backdoors implanted in every piece of hardware, but this is how the NSA actually breaks into systems... they do it the same way everyone else does, just on a much larger scale and with even less fear of legal repercussions that the cyber criminals.

Hey. Stop being all logical and shit. We need to be yelling at them for being net.deities who spell billion trillion dollars on backdoors in all the things... then yelling at them for spending a billion trillion dollars on superfluous things like NOCs that look like the Enterprise bridge... and now we have to yell at them for being cost-effective by using exploits published by others.

Get with the program: Everything the NSA does is bad! They can do no right. Even if they right now figured out a cure for cancer, we'd have to burn it and keep anyone from getting it, because it might have genetic backdoors into our brain meats that render the tin foil hats useless!