• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 months ago

    I feel like it’s very important in terms of understanding the potential goals and motivations of people working on a particular piece of technology. Just because they say they’re ex-CIA absolutely does not mean they’re not actively working for them. While technical issues are obvious here, that’s not always the case. For example, there’s a famous case where NSA suggested using a particular configuration that made SSH vulnerable. There was nothing that would jump out at anybody as being nefarious because you had to already know that a particular exploit existed to notice it. However, questioning the intentions of the NSA in this scenario would’ve helped avoid the exploit.

    https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/nsa-crack-encryption.html