[noir_lord]

The NSA has a dual role, break other people’s stuff and secure the US govs stuff (in theory).

They can (and have) act in an advisory capacity but they have no regularity authority to force companies to secure their shit.

Now whether such an organisation should exist that’s an interesting question I guess.

Over here in the UK we have a similar body.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cyber_Security_Cent...

As someone in the UK tech industry I’m not sure what they actually do on the ground.

[YjSe2GMQ]

One thing those are good for is being a call center for white hat hackers. I.e. if you find some holes you can report to those agencies, and they'll take it from there. I know that's what people that speak about their findings on CCC do.