The NSA Has Been Hacked -- So What Else is New?

Current and former agency officials say the Shadow Brokers disclosures, which began in August 2016, have been catastrophic for the N.S.A., calling into question its ability to protect potent cyberweapons and its very value to national security. The agency regarded as the world’s leader in breaking into adversaries’ computer networks failed to protect its own.

From the NYTimes.

When the doughty government of Uncle Sam decides

It will deal with scoundrels with effective pesticides,

Agents with rare training and deep cunning are employed

To keep the villains running and to make them paranoid.

And so the NSA was formed to decimate the ranks

Of those who lurked in cyberspace attacking on our flanks.

They gathered so much data and intelligence for war

That no one cloud could hold it, so it lay upon the floor.

And so those nasty hackers who delight to thumb their nose

At our lovely government swept intel up in rows.

Now it is residing god knows where in cyberspace --

And NSA admits it may have lost a little face.

But some new agency will rise to carry on the fight,

With taxpayer-fueled funding that will bankrupt left and right.

So terrorists, just watch your step -- we’ve got your number now.

You cannot sink our Ship of State (though it might be a scow.)