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Lots of people are talking like it's a political move, insiders, super team hackers... but imho this is just to level up the game. Pretty sure that this tools are know to the NSA to be leaked and probably saw a small guy using this therefore they release the stash of the most "shared" tools to the general public via this charade and the small players start again from zero and the big league players (equation group) can dominate the the field again with his 0-days.

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You're pretty sure the NSA is behind the EQ auction, because they're burning their exploits after noticing someone else using them?

Hi tptacek big fan of yours here...

Well if i were part EQ and saw my exploits leaked somewhere else, this is what i will personally recommend doing, to level up the game and meanwhile let's blame russia so my job is secure (finding exploits in TAO) and to keep out of the game the small league players (HackingTeam, NSO, FinFisher, et al).

If I want Cisco to patch the vuln that some small player is exploiting, I can think of better ways to accomplish that than publishing the exploit myself.

Like what? normal disclosure or leaking the exploit to big guys like taviso? nah this won't do shit... cisco will patch and charge you his "premium membership" to download updates and sysadmins won't update now that shit hit the fan and the average kiddie can, cisco will be forced to release the update as free (to protect his stock) and sysadmins will be forced to update asap.

Have you seen anything to support this theory or are you just practicing your creative writing?

I am going to steal this creative writing line and add it to my other favorites

Don't meet trouble halfway.

You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts

There are two kinds of problems: yours and mine and this is not mine

Well let's say i do the plots for the sitcom "Mr Robot" from time to time.

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