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Their two missions are Signals Intelligence and Information Assurance. The contributions they make to security technology and standards are going to be equally as effective no matter what country you’re a citizen of. If you think the work they release is motivated by an intention to compromise your security, then you must also believe they are trying to do the same thing to the US federal government. A goal which hardly seems very nationalist.

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Did you already forget how long they knew of EternalBlue instead of immediately forcing patches?

Both of those missions are at odds with improving security. Try harder.

Information Assurance is not at odds with improving security. It is literally the NSAs mandate to improve the security of the federal government (and other US entities).

You’re making an assumption that in order to gather signals intelligence, that they need to trick people into using compromised cryptography.

A fact that is not in dispute is that huge portions of the US federal government implement NSA recommendations and standards. For your assumption to be true, the NSA must be intentionally weakening federal systems. Nothing about that seems nationalistic to me.

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