[nocturnial]

They always called each other out, but this was usually done privately, not publically.

If it's done publically, it's usually not a message to a foreign entity but rather a message targeted for domestic consumption. The NSA got a bad reputation with the release of the Snowden files and I guess what we're seeing today is the result of that. Hiring talented people got more difficult for them. So they are releasing ghidra and doing PR stunts like this one to convince potential employees that the NSA isn't that bad.

I'm not making a judgement of what the NSA did or does is bad or what Snowden did was good or bad. Not even whether this PR move was warranted to show they are doing positive things. All I'm saying it's a PR move.