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by iraklism 3351 days ago
I was about to comment something similar , but then I saw your post. Btw I don't know why people are down voting it.

This is an important point. This research comes after 10 days of the leak. I have been following the leak closely, I've even compiled a list with all the analysis and resources on a gist.

Good guys, bad guys, kids, bored Blackhats, had enough time to practically follow the step by step instructions in order to implant the backdoor. It doesn't take more than 30-40 mins for the first read till a successful exploit.

The short answer is that we have no idea of knowing how many of those were backdoored by the NSA.

Also worth noting is that the leak happened 3-4 months ago. A lot of people had access to this privately.

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I was thinking this created great plausible deniability for the NSA.