The NSA hacks other countries by buying millions of dollars’ worth of computer vulnerabilities
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/31/the-nsa-hacks-other-countries-by-buying-millions-of-dollars-worth-of
Just who might the NSA be paying in this covert marketplace?
One of the most famous players in the arena is Vupen, a French company that specializes in selling zero-day exploits. A 2011 brochure made public on WikiLeaks showed Vupen boasting that it could “deliver exclusive exploit codes for undisclosed vulnerabilities discovered in-house by Vupen security researchers.
