Re: China did it! Not us!
NSA - 1 Kaspersky - 0.
Possible. But not plausible.
1. I suggest you read Cobweb. You are attributing too much brain activity to a USA agency. It is uncharacteristic.
2. It is not plausible, because if it was a "screw Kasperski" op it would have used only a small subset and/or out of date tools. It would have not used crown jewels in active use. The Equation group toolkit discovered at that time was STILL with crown jewel classification.
3. The Chinese connection is not necessarily Chinese. Both criminal gangs and nation state actors actively use Chinese proxies (so much for the Great Firewall). So no guarantee there. We do know however that the whole Equation group toolkit got stolen at about the same time (and recently put on sale).
So the actual score at the time looks more like:
NSA:0 Eugene:1 (he got proper info for his signatures as a result) GRU:2 (They got the whole toolkit - did they get it from Eugene or bypassing him is irrelevant for score taking purposes).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
