I have been withholding my opinions until more concrete validation occurs. Either way, true or not, this will affect global foreign policy and may change the scale of global cyber crime and nation state offensive/defensive cyber activities. Already, we are seeing companies like Cisco, Fortinet and Juniper Networks looking into possible 0-day vulnerabilities in their products. This is just the beginning...
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Check this out - Glenn Greenwald's, The Intercept has confirmed that the NSA hack is indeed, real:
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/19/the-nsa-was-hacked-snowden-documents-confirm/
It would be great if I could explain what happened. So far I don't understand it.
Expect in the next week, more information will come out on this incident. That would be my guess. Until then, there will be a lot of speculation from people wanting media coverage (a little bit of fame)
Cisco, Fortinet, and Juniper are not suddenly beginning to look for 0-days because of the Equation Group hack - they've been at it for years already. This comment contains no content or substantive information.
There is some good information in the news regarding their specific work after the unencrypted source code was made public.