They might enjoy the benefits of collaboration. Still the fact they are intimidating you with a public tool is also of benefit to their image as a powerful group. A large part of police work is intimidation.
Comment on NSA and Ghidra
needthosepylons@lemmy.world 2 months agoYeah but… isn’t it weird that they share their tools then?
I’m not into conspiracy stuff. It’s just that when I downloaded Ghidra for the first time, when I saw it was being published by the NSA, I had a “wow, didn’t expect that” reactions and it somehow became a shower thought.
It may be important to say that I’m not from the US. Where I live, I’m not sure things like that would happen or have happened. Well, or it did and I didn’t really pay attention.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
needthosepylons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, yes, that’s also true. Thanks!
CameronDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
The NSA has two semis conflicting jobs. They are meant to gain access to foreign adversaries, as well as protecting american interests. Publishing ghidra goes towards the later.
There is also a law in the US that stuff developed by government agencies needs to be open sourced. I can’t find the law, but there have been other bits of OSS stuff released by other agencies.
Selinux was developed by the NSA.