No one's posting anything about it but NSA just released their own reverse engienering toolkit for some reason, for everyone, for free lol
Why do you guys think they'd do that? It's even open source now and at first glance, comparable to the well known (and expensive) IDA Pro
also this:
Originally Posted by Youtro
Why do you guys think they'd do that?
My guess would be that embedded within the tools are some form of trackers or a RAT meant to follow and take down hackers or anti-government cells the NSA deems to be dangerous. With what I know about US domestic policy this screams honeypot for covert tracking of targets. Any time an entity as dubious as the NSA gives something away, especially in this context, it should be met with heavy apprehension.
Originally Posted by Aborted
My guess would be that embedded within the tools are some form of trackers or a RAT meant to follow and take down hackers or anti-government cells the NSA deems to be dangerous. With what I know about US domestic policy this screams honeypot for covert tracking of targets. Any time an entity as dubious as the NSA gives something away, especially in this context, it should be met with heavy apprehension.
the thing is tho, that it's an open source software so you don't even need to download anything from their site. you can just clone it from github and check the code for your self. also the people who'll use this tool should have no problem finding any backdoor in their code so it would be pretty stupid of them to try and plant something there right? if they did infect it tho, and no one finds out about it for a while, what can you even do against such an organization?
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btw it also might be a white flag on their part, basically publicly admitting that the program is no longer much of a secret and many outsiders have access to it so they might as well release it by themselves before it gets leaked from somewhere else and they have to deal with the press about it
Originally Posted by Youtro
