Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Great PR
The NSA, National Security Agency, discovered a flaw in the code for Windows 10, the Microsoft operating system for PCs. Rather than use it to hack foreign systems for intelligence, the NSA decided to alert Microsoft about it and to give the company time to issue a patch, Security experts are praising the agency for its civic-mindedness, and it is an example of great public relations. There is no telling what the agency could do by exploiting the mistake, but given that the NSA is a collection of world-class hackers and code jockeys, the software error would have reaped enormous amounts of data. Why, then, did the agency choose to go public? It is trying to repair its reputation from the loss of a powerful program to nefarious hackers who have used it to penetrate thousands of companies and individuals PCs. The agency is becoming more open to the public without compromising secret work. That's a good thing. It is too large to be a Bletchley Park, and the enemies of the US already know it is working to break their codes.
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