Iknowitall

By the way, would you put a bunch of secret technology (maybe a new bomb) partially hidden in a manhole in the middle of the street, just in case a spy passing by needs to use it? That is pretty much what they are doing here... code is easy to move around and to copy. Today (or in relatively short amount of time) who wants that code bad enough will be able to find it. That technology that took yeas and million of dollars to develop is now available to the bad guys. Face palm!

What is the NSA is doing here is more subtle and I do not think they fully realize it. They are heavily financing and accelerating the speed of damages that people on the dark side can do. They are "inspiring" a bunch of curious teenagers (in the best case) or a bunch of cyber criminals (in the worst case) to create another malware like that. They are putting out there first of all the ideas, second the conviction that it is possible to do so, and third sample code to study, improve and deploy. This race to being the "smarter" spy is unfortunately leading us in a very risky world to live in. A lose-lose preposition. The press and the antivirus researchers are also not being too smart here to make this public available.