So before I begin, there are two components or aspects to this.

The first is that the analysis of the code and exploits contained in
this archive should reveal a set of previously unknown vulnerabilities
in many different programs and operating systems.  This should result in
patches and fixes being issued by the usual suspects, notably
Micro$haft.

The second is that you may or may not agree with the reasons why this
archive is now available in decrypted form.  I admit that I was not
impressed with Trump launching almost $100 million worth of taxpayer
hardware to blow up the syrian desert on account of what will probably
be discovered to be a fake or staged civilian gas attack (that
mysteriously didn't kill any rebels).  The side effects of doing this
are (a) CNN and the liberal left-wing media is almost praising trump for
being "presidential", (b) China and North Korea get to see Trump use a
big stick, and (c) Trump needs to get congress lined up behind him and
for all previous presidents, it ususally takes a war or a bombing of
some poor foreign shmucks to do that.

So without further adu...

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-08/hacker-group-releases-password-nsas-to
p-secret-arsenal-protest-trump-betrayal

Hacker Group Releases Password To NSA's "Top Secret Arsenal" In Protest
Of Trump Betrayal

Apr 8, 2017 2:16 PM

Last August, the intel world was abuzz following the news that a
previously unknown hacker collective, "The Shadow Brokers" had hacked
and released legitimate hacking tools from the NSA's own special-ops
entity, the "Equation Group", with initial speculation emerging that the
Russians may have penetrated the US spy agency as suggested by none
other than Edward Snowden. The Shadow Brokers released a bunch of the
organization's hacking tools, and were asking for 1 million bitcoin
(around $568 million at the time) to release more files, however failed
to find a buyer.

Attention then shifted from Russians after some speculated that the
agency itself may be housing another "mole" insider. At the time, a
former NSA source told Motherboard, that “it's plausible” that the
leakers are actually a disgruntled insider, claiming that it's easier to
walk out of the NSA with a USB drive or a CD than hack its servers." As
famed NSA whistleblower William Binney - who exposed the NSA's pervasive
surveillance of Americans long before Snowden confirmed it - said, “My
colleagues and I are fairly certain that this was no hack, or group for
that matter, This ‘Shadow Brokers' character is one guy, an insider
employee."

In a subsequent Reuters op-ed by cybersecurity expert James Bamford,
author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the
Eavesdropping on America, and columnist for Foreign Policy magazine, he
said that seemed as the most probable explanation, and that Russia had
nothing to do with this latest - and most provocative yet - hack.

Since then, the Shadow Broker group, whose origin and identity still
remains a mystery, disappeared from the radar only to emerge today, when
in an article posted on Medium, the group wrote an op-ed, much of it in
broken English, in which it slammed Donald Trump's betrayal of his core
"base", and the recent attack on Syria, urging Trump to revert to his
original promises and not be swept away by globalist and MIC interests,
but far more imporantly, released the password which grants access to
what Edward Snowden moments ago called the NSA's "Top Secret arsenal of
digital weapons."

The article begins with the group explaining why it is displeased with
Trump.

===========
Don't Forget Your Base

Respectfully, what the #### are you doing? TheShadowBrokers voted for
you. TheShadowBrokers supports you. TheShadowBrokers is losing faith in
you. Mr. Trump helping theshadowbrokers, helping you. Is appearing you
are abandoning “your base”, “the movement”, and the peoples who getting
you elected.

    Good Evidence:

#1— Goldman Sach (TheGlobalists) and Military Industrial Intelligence
    Complex (MIIC) cabinet
#2— Backtracked on Obamacare
#3— Attacked the Freedom Causcus (TheMovement)
#4— Removed Bannon from the NSC
#5— Increased U.S. involvement in a foreign war (Syria Strike)

The peoples whose voted for you, voted against the Republican Party, the
party that tried to destroying your character in the primaries. The
peoples who voted for you, voted against the Democrat Party, the party
that hates, mocks, and laughs at you. Without the support of the peoples
who voted for you, what do you think will be happening to your
Presidency? Without the support of the people who voted for you, do you
think you'll be still making America great again? Do you be remembering
when you were sitting there at the Obama Press Party and they were all
laughing at you? Do you be remembering when you touring the country and
all those peoples believed in you and supported you? You were those
peoples hope. How do you be thinking it will be feeling when those
people turn on you? Will they be laughing at you, hating you, and
mocking you too?


TheShadowBrokers doesn't want this to be happening to you, Mr. Trump.
TheShadowBrokers is wanting to see you succeed.
=============

The hackers then ask Trump whose war is he fighting:

=============
If you made deal(s) be telling the peoples about them, peoples is
appreciating transparency. But what kind of deal can be resulting in
chemical weapons used in Syria, Mr. Bannon's removal from the NSC, US
military strike on Syria, and successful vote for SCOTUS without change
rules? Mr. Trump whose war are you fighting? Israeli Nationalists'
(Zionist) and Goldman Sachs' war? Chinese Globalists' and Goldman Sachs
war? Is not looking like you fighting the domestic wars, the movement
elected you to be fighting. You not being in office three months and
already you looking like the MIIC's bitch with John McCain and Chuck
Schumer double dutch ruddering each other in the corner over dead
corpses.
============

The post continues by exposing what the ShadowBrokers believe is the
general mindset of Trump's support base:

===========
Your Supporters:

* Don't care what is written in the NYT, Washington Post, or any
  newspaper, so just ignore it.
* Don't care if you swapped wives with Mr Putin, double down on it,
  “Putin is not just my firend he is my BFF”.
* Don't care if the election was hacked or rigged, celebrate it 
  “so what if I did, what are you going to do about it”.
* Don't care if your popular or nice, get er done, Obama's fail,
  thinking he could create compromise. No compromise.
* Don't want foreign wars, Do want domestic wars, “drain the swamp”,
  “destroy the nanny state”
* Don't care about your faith, you sound like a smuck when you try
  to say god things
* DO support the ideologies and policies of Steve Bannon, 
  Anti-Globalism, Anti-Socialism, Nationalism, Isolationism

===================

In the article, the ShadowBrokers also touch upon what until recently
was the primary topic of the daily news cycle, namely the whether Russia
is behind this (and any other black hat intel hacking operation):

================
For peoples still being confused about TheShadowBrokers and Russia. If
theshadowbrokers being Russian don't you think we'd be in all those U.S.
government reports on Russian hacking? TheShadowBrokers isn't not fans
of Russia or Putin but “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” We
recognize Americans' having more in common with Russians than Chinese or
Globalist or Socialist. Russia and Putin are nationalist and enemies of
the Globalist, examples: NATO encroachment and Ukraine conflict.
Therefore Russia and Putin are being best allies until the common
enemies are defeated and America is great again.
=================

The report than goes on to suggest that the hacking group is in fact
comprised mostly of former US spies: 
==================
"President Trump, theshadowbrokers is offering our services to you and
your administration. Did you know most of theshadowbrokers' members have
taken the oath “…to protect and defend the constitution of the United
States against all enemies foreign and domestic…”. Yes sir! Most of us
used to be TheDeepState everyone is talking about."

Then something changed, and the collective notes that "TheDeepState is
being the enemy of the constitution, individualism, life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. With the right funding we can recruit some of
the best hacker intel peoples in United States and world. “Unmasking” is
being new buzz word, so we use. TheShadowBrokers is being happy to
unmask anyone we considering to be an enemy of the Constitution of the
United States."

Enemies like John McCain. Something doesn't rub theshadowbrokers rite
about Vietnam War POW who at every opportunity seeks to do violence to
others via the proxy of young service men and women. If anyone should be
being pacifist, slow to pick fight it should be being former POW.
TheShadowBrokers is sure if we “unmasking”, Senator McCain, Magog itself
might come out, many defense contractors, Saudi Princes, and possibly
little Vietnamese boy he shares with Senator Lindsey Graham, not cool!
Mr. Trump we know you are having DOJ and FBI, so why you be needing
theShadowBrokers? You don't, but theshadowbrokers is confused. Why
haven't you served search warrant to NYT, Washington Post, Goldman
Sacks, Jeff Bezos, and all other Globalist for investigation and
prosecution of treason, sedition, and un-American activities during a
time of war? The
================

It was the conclusion to the post, however, that was most interesting -
in it the Shadow Brokers urges Trump to be the "real deal" and has
released the password to the NSA hacking tool binaries that made so much
news last summer:

===============
Mr. President Trump theshadowbrokers sincerely is hoping you are being
the real deal and that you received this as constructive criticism
toward #MAGA. Some American's consider or maybe considering
TheShadowBrokers traitors. We disagreeing. We view this as keeping our
oath to protect and defend against enemies foreign and domestic.
TheShadowBrokers wishes we could be doing more, but revolutions/civil
wars taking money, time, and people. TheShadowBrokers has is having
little of each as our auction was an apparent failure. 

Be considering this our form of protest. The password for the
EQGRP-Auction-Files is CrDj”(;Va.*NdlnzB9M?@K2)#>deB7mN
================

Shortly after the blog post hit, Wikileaks noticed:

Shadow Brokers releases password to NSA hacking tool binaries from 2013
as "protest" over "abandoning base" https://t.co/zFrz1vumcL
pic.twitter.com/7ruMT0JPTH

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 8, 2017

Even Edward Snowden got involved

NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons;
hackers leaked it.

    1) https://t.co/zleVbyBtE3
    2) https://t.co/aKwdiNbrJA

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 8, 2017

Bitter lesson:
When any government conceals knowledge of vulnerabilities in common
software, those vulns will be found and used by enemies.
https://t.co/EfLgJMwbNs

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 8, 2017

Quick review of the #ShadowBrokers leak of Top Secret NSA tools reveals
it's nowhere near the full library, but there's still so... (1/2)

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 8, 2017

Speak not because it is safe, but because it is right.

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 11, 2017
 

As per Wikileaks, the released information include "browsable decrypted
Shadow Brokers "NSA" hacking tools+docs files corresponding to password
released today", and that "Hundreds of NSA cyber weapons variants
publicly released including code showing hacking of Pakistan mobile
system"

Hundreds of NSA cyber weapons variants publicly released including code
showing hacking of Pakistan mobile system https://t.co/bL833ktQpm

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 8, 2017

Chinese targets found in today's "Shadow Brokers|" NSA cyber weapons
dump, e.g https://t.co/6Dnd4vlSmn pic.twitter.com/ZcUbp82cv5

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 8, 2017

The github depository of the released code can be found here.

https://github.com/x0rz/EQGRP
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