On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:54:21PM -0300, juan wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:32:00 +0000 > Crypto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Reddit is going nutz over articles like this... > > > > http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-hack-nsa-linked-equation-group > > > > " hackers are...asking for 1 million bitcoin > http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/group-claims-to-hack-nsa-tied-hackers-posts-exploits-as-proof/
There is a link and screenshot of the original announcement. As I read it, public release is fallback option in case there is no winner in the auction and it raised at least million. This claim looks weird: ==== While it wasn't immediately possible for outsiders to prove the posted data—mostly batch scripts and _poorly coded_ python scripts ====
