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by zmanian 3542 days ago
Wonders if this is Shadowbrokers...
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>the highly classified “source code” developed by the agency to break into computer systems of adversaries like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

Sure sounds like a plausible candidate considering what Shadow Brokers were touting.

If I follow the news releases correctly, this arrest is not of Shadowbrokers but instead the trail from Shadowbrokers led back to a server(s) w/the NSA toolkit installed. Perhaps NSA followed those breadcrumbs back to this individual. Or: Shadowbrokers discovered actual NSA server and NSA is trying to scapegoat an individual in order to shed the appearance of operational ineptitude.