Steve, thank you very much for your broad answer. Interesting and valuable points... I just wanted to answer your (rhetorical?) question
I wonder WTF that was about. Does somebody with control of the resources WANT their capabilities publicly disclosed? If so, was this a strategic decision from the top, or an act of systemic sabotage by a lower level actor within the organization in question?
In my opinion, its from the top. They just DONT CARE. They are so self confident in their superiority over us (in money & technologies), that they deliberately act so bold and open. It's like "and what are you gonna do/what can you do, when you knowwww all this?" IMHO, they even get some kind of sadistic pleasure seeing and reading our relatively powerless reactions. Alexander