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NSA Malware Leak - Opportunity or Crisis?

The NSA Malware leak has been in the news for days.

Most news reports tell us that a hacker group called Shadow Brokers stole the files from The Equation Group which was affiliated with NSA.

This question has never been asked but, what do you guys think?

Opportunity - Computer Engineers reverse engineering it and submitting it to antivirus companies for improved software for privacy of people

Or

Crisis - Shadow Brokers still have many files encrypted and they only have given us a preview. Price of the decryption passphrase is 1Mil BTC. This might give a rise of a big cyberwarfare. Many terrorist outfits and Governments will aim to get this.

What is your view on this?

PS - https://github.com/nneonneo/eqgrp-free-f...ee/master/
Incase you want to browse
(Aug 17, 2016 01:37 AM)dendro Wrote:  My view is from the sideline. Im staying out of the way.

Many people will.
Opportunity, however some of this stuff is outdated and still not detected by any antiviruses, so I believe they were being paid off. The reverse engineering part is good though to get a better idea of what kind of stuff they do there.
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(Aug 17, 2016 08:39 AM)Faith Connors Wrote:  Opportunity, however some of this stuff is outdated and still not detected by any antiviruses, so I believe they were being paid off. The reverse engineering part is good though to get a better idea of what kind of stuff they do there.

Thats what we doing mate.
(Aug 17, 2016 01:37 AM)dendro Wrote:  My view is from the sideline. Im staying out of the way.

I'll be there with ya
It reminds me MR Robot scenario.


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