That alone seems argue against this being the handiwork of the "best & brightest" in the US intelligence community.
Noob question: is it widely believed in the security community that the US intelligence community has lots of 'the best and the brightest' when it comes malware construction?
I only ask because I recall a bit of Jane Mayer's book that explained that post-9/11, the CIA didn't have any professional interrogators on staff because they weren't in the business of holding prisoners in custody to interrogate. Just curious if a similar phenomena might be at work.
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That alone seems argue against this being the handiwork of the "best & brightest" in the US intelligence community.
Noob question: is it widely believed in the security community that the US intelligence community has lots of 'the best and the brightest' when it comes malware construction?
I only ask because I recall a bit of Jane Mayer's book that explained that post-9/11, the CIA didn't have any professional interrogators on staff because they weren't in the business of holding prisoners in custody to interrogate. Just curious if a similar phenomena might be at work.
NSA is a hiring pipeline for software security. Some very, very talented exploit developers have come out of NSA.