Comic: The Ghidra Ransom

Old News but about a month ago Ghidra (one of the NSA’s reverse-engineering tools), was made Open-Source by the NSA. Sadly, the code also ‘accidentally‘ unlocked networking ports on a user’s computer.

NSA: “Whoops, our bad.“ *

The Comic:

*Not a real quote from the NSA.

 

Sources and more Ghidra information:

https://www.technotification.com/2019/04/nsa-releases-ghidra-free-reverse-engineering-tool.html

https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-ghidra-open-source-tool/amp

No Backdoors!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/06/nsa_ghidra_joyce/