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> I would be curious if anyone knows what their filter, reasoning, etc - for open sourcing X vs Y.

NSA is both red team and blue team. This is a blue team tool used by reverse engineers to analyze malware, so it was NSA's little gift to researchers, an agency known for hoarding secrets for our 'security'.

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> This is a blue team tool used by reverse engineers to analyze malware

It's also a red team tool for binary exploitation.

EDIT: The cynic in me posits it was used far more for exploit development than for analyzing malware, unless that had offensive applications too. But I don't know anything, I never worked there.

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