So all of this makes what they actually do as a living okay? You know, dragnet surveillance, physically wiretapping Google's internal network, backdooring encryption, etc.? Since when are we trusting the face value of anything somebody at the NSA says? Where's the skepticism gone from the Snowden days? Like, these people aren't our friends. Any code contributions from organisations like this, which do not have our best interests at heart and at worst actively attempt to subvert efforts at hardening encryption and other security efforts, need to be combed over with a fine-tooth comb.
Hell, as a European, the NSA is very clearly the enemy. Their goal is to protect US citizens, maybe, with very unconstitutional methods. They have little to no interest in the privacy or legal rights of people outside of the US, and yet have an unimaginable global reach.
The fact that they’re not committing their changes under a pseudonym or front company suggests that they’re okay with the world knowing about what they’re up to. Same with their reverse-engineering toolkit.
What Snowden publicized was, for the most part, completely hidden from the view of society. The NSA wasn’t coming to tech conferences announcing their new surveillance tools.
Don’t think that the new parts of Coreboot won’t attract scrutiny from security-conscious companies and individuals.
> The fact that they’re not committing their changes under a pseudonym or front company suggests that they’re okay with the world knowing about what they’re up to.
They are not committing their most secretive and effective tools on GitHub for Christ's sake.
Hell, as a European, the NSA is very clearly the enemy. Their goal is to protect US citizens, maybe, with very unconstitutional methods. They have little to no interest in the privacy or legal rights of people outside of the US, and yet have an unimaginable global reach.