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156 And when he opened them on his PC: Andy Greenberg, “The Shadow Brokers Mess Is What Happens When the NSA Hoards Zero Days,” Wired, Aug. 17, 2016, www.wired.com.

156 Though the files appeared to be dated: David Sanger, “Shadow Brokers’ Leak Raises Alarming Question: Was the N.S.A. Hacked?,” New York Times, Aug. 16, 2016, www.nytimes.com.

156 Cisco, for instance: “Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability,” Cisco Security Advisories and Alerts, Aug. 17, 2018, www.tools.cisco.com, archived at bit.ly/2CnkJAv.

157 Instead, in the first twenty-four hours: Andy Greenberg, “No One Wants to Buy Those Stolen NSA-Linked Cyberweapons,” Wired, Aug. 16, 2016, www.wired.com.

157 Experts largely agreed the profit motive: Ibid.

158 “Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom”: Edward Snowden, Twitter post, Aug. 16, 2016, twitter.com, archived at bit.ly/2RdZGwc.

159 This time they offered up: Shadow Brokers, “Message#5—Trick or Treat?” Medium, Oct. 30, 2016, Medium.com, archived at bit.ly/2MvthQW.

159 “We’re sending a message”: William M. Arkin, Ken Dilanian, and Robert Windrem, “CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia,” NBC News, Oct. 14, 2016, www.nbcnews.com.

159 “TheShadowBrokers is trying”: Shadow Brokers, “REPOST: TheShadowBrokers Message#6,” Steemit, Dec. 2016, Steemit.com, archived at bit.ly/2FPu4vt.

160 “So long, farewell”: Shadow Brokers, “Message Finale,” TheShadowBrokers.bit, Jan. 12, 2017, archived at bit.ly/2CJn4wv.

160 Some in the security industry speculated: Kevin Poulsen, “Mystery Hackers Blow Up Secret NSA Hacking Tools in ‘Final F——k You,’” Daily Beast, Jan. 13, 2017, www.thedailybeast.com/.

160 “The fun is over”: Joseph Cox, “NSA Exploit Peddlers the Shadow Brokers Call It Quits,” Motherboard, Jan. 12, 2017, www.motherboard.vice.com.

160 “We recognize Americans’ having more in common”: Shadow Brokers, “Don’t Forget Your Base,” Medium, April 8, 2017, medium.com, archived at bit.ly/2CKzBQ5.

161 “Russia is likely using the latest”: Jake Williams, “Russia ‘Crosses the Rubicon’ with Newest Shadow Brokers Dump,” Peerlyst, April 9, 2017, www.peerlyst.com, archived at bit.ly/2CJTIDG.

161 “@malwarejake You having big mouth”: Shadow Brokers, Twitter post, twitter.com, April 9, 2017, archived at bit.ly/2B38u2T.

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163 “Last week theshadowbrokers be trying”: Shadow Brokers, “Lost in Translation,” Steemit.com, April 14, 2017, www.steemit.com, archived at bit.ly/2FQ7Auy.

164 Or, as my Wired colleague Lily Hay Newman: Lily Hay Newman, “The Leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World,” Wired, March 7, 2018, www.wired.com.

164 The Washington Post would later confirm: Ellen Nakashima and Craig Timberg, “NSA Officials Worried About the Day Its Potent Hacking Tool Would Get Loose. Then It Did,” Washington Post, May 16, 2016, www.washingtonpost.com.

165 They immediately received tens of thousands: Dan Goodin, “>10,000 Windows Computers May Be Infected by Advanced NSA Backdoor,” Ars Technica, April 21, 2017, arstechnica.com.