NSA holiday talking points humor

[coderman]

this is pretty amusing reading:
  http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/844508/nsas-talking-points-for-holiday-gatherings.pdf


"NSA does not and will not demand changes by any vendor to any
product, nor does it have any authority to demand such changes." - NSA
Spin

TRANSLATION:
"We pay above market rates[0] to our corporate partners for embedded
vulns goddamnit!" - NSA Truth


0.  $10,000,000 to backdoor all of RSA's BSafe customers and cheer
lead Dual_EC_DRBG through approval it seems.
 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220

let's not get into the standards bodies[1] yet, they're a little raw
right now :o


1. "Critics: NSA agent co-chairing key crypto standards body [IETF
CFRG] should be removed"
  http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/critics-nsa-agent-co-chairing-key-crypto-standards-body-should-be-removed/