Symantec’s discovery was clear evidence that even when the NSA used its tools in stealth, there were no guarantees that our adversaries wouldn’t detect them and—like a gunslinger who grabs an enemy’s rifle and starts firing away—turn them back on us. It was another sign that NOBUS—the presumption that “nobody but us” had the sophistication to find and exploit zero-days—was an arrogant one. Not only that, it was obsolete.
