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Agreed. The NSA has known about the shadow brokers beach for 4 or 5 months. They should have warned industry sooner.

They ostensibly maintain their capability to protect us, but this is a clear example of them failing to protect us. The focus on offensive posture is all macho and typical military industrial bluster. My point is that the offensive cyber capability is more about dick length than keeping the country safer.

Nevermind that the internet is a global shared resource that works best when we work together.

Also, MS haters are doing some pretty fantastic replays of the hits in this thread. I get that you don't like them, but "kill Microsoft" isn't the answer. Maybe there needs to be a model for assigning cost to vulnerabilities like this...to Microsoft and the NSA. Make them account for this in monetary terms and you will see change.