Then I asked him point-blank what responsibility his agency bore for WannaCry, NotPetya, and the attacks now roiling American towns and cities, to which the admiral leaned back and crossed his arms. “If Toyota makes pickup trucks and someone takes a pickup truck, welds an explosive device onto the front, crashes it through a perimeter and into a crowd of people, is that Toyota’s responsibility?” I couldn’t tell if he was being pedantic or if he expected an answer. But then he’d answered it himself. “The NSA wrote an exploit that was never designed to do what was done.” It was the first time
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