On 05/18/2017 12:46 AM, grarpamp wrote:
That points to two options. The first is that the files came from Hal Martin. He's the NSA contractor who was arrested in August for hoarding agency secrets in his house for two years.
...and they hung him out with the code. Busted him. Reeled the code back in. Distributed it as the "ShadowBrokers" as a honeypot with the 'cover' that it was already out there so it COULDN'T be the Intel agencies, and when it didn't get them many nibbles on their poisoned pot, they just 'let it go', because as can be seen with the latest and greatest, the code was designed to attack Russian interests anyway, and they'll probably get Martin for releasing it. That's been my take all along, and still is. Ps. The people running the WannaCry ransomware op communicate better than most vendors. https://twitter.com/fztalks/status/864852163230609408
