NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com)

Reader wierd_w writes: According to Business Insider, the NSA is worried about the possible scope of information leaked from the agency, after a group calling themselves the 'Shadow Brokers' absconded with a sizable trove of penetration tools and technical exploits, which it plans to sell on the black market. Among the concerns are worries that active operations may have been exposed. Business insider quotes an undisclosed source as stating the possibility of the loss of such security and stealth (eg privacy) has had chilling effects for the agency, as they attempt to determine the fullness and scope of the leak.
(Does anyone besides me feel a little tickled about the irony of the NSA complaining about chilling effects of possibly being monitored?)

Comments

Infowar equivaltent of M.A.D.

[Comboman]

On the contrary, I think this may be a positive development. Back in the cold war, neither side could use their nuclear weapons since they knew the other would instantly retaliate (Mutually Assured Destruction). It appears we've now reached that phase in the infowar. Both sides know what each other is up to, but they know if they reveal what the other is doing, their own shenanigans will be exposed.

Re:Hate the NSA all you want

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

With the US being a bad thing for everybody else in the world, an most of its "own" people?
I'd say that what's bad for the US is good for the sake of humaity itself, and I only brook small exaggeration here.

The removal through collapse, of the United States as an actor on the world stage would be the greatest human triumph since the collapse of the Berlin Wall or the ending of South African Apartheid.

God bless us, each and everyone.