NSA Backdoors and Vulnerabilities

are non us people going to stop using microsoft windows, intel cpus, vmware... ? Wouldn't it make more sense for the nsa to bug these things ?

Interesting, makes you wonder how many exploits the NSA purposely doesn't mention to the vendor for their own benefit

The NSA have been accused of discovering vulnerabilities in systems and software but keeping them undisclosed so that they can exploit them themselves. A defensive security agency could be actively trying to secure these systems protecting us not just from government surveillance but all types of nefarious hackers.

NSA and similar agencies are probably even mad at him, because he exposed the weakness that they could have exploited when needed, which is probably now patched.

Probably on the behalf of the NSA wanting remote access to them.

To me it seems too clumsy to be USG. They seem to prefer back doors that are undetectable or hide in plain sight.But it might be an NSA op designed to instigate a much needed serious examination of the supply chain.

Attack by CIA/NSA?They have the best possible insight into the hardware and software at all stages I should think.

Doesn't the NSA and FBI collectively have backdoors on most major consumer hardwares? Wouldn't that be a security concern for the rest of the world?

Great. I hope this continues. The more the NSA has problems, the better off the rest of the rest of us are. It's unlikely the institution is even lawful--its practices certainly aren't. At the very least, it proves that the government cannot itself keep secrets, so it really needs to shut up about trying to put backdoors into software when it can't protect its own most vital software assets from leaking. I guarantee if Android or iOS had such government mandated backdoors, they ke

Either way don't rely on it. It's most likely compromised by NSA.