Well, I imagine there's a lot of commonality between the Dutch and American logistics software stack. I would hope that securing America's ports falls within the NSA's purview.
I could of course be wrong, but hey. Obviously you're right that the technical level of expertise is a little below this level in this case anyway, but I just wanted to emphasize that this is the sort of societal impact of having a policy of subverting network security.
> Well, I imagine there's a lot of commonality between the Dutch and American logistics software stack. I would hope that securing America's ports falls within the NSA's purview.
If the Dutch logistics companies were running unpatched versions of Windows (for example) that seems more like an operations failure than anything else. Not necessarily something that is a broken part of the "stack."
I could of course be wrong, but hey. Obviously you're right that the technical level of expertise is a little below this level in this case anyway, but I just wanted to emphasize that this is the sort of societal impact of having a policy of subverting network security.