You don’t get NSA-grade hacks without some good techies (who probably have the same general traits, pleasure at finding an elegant entry point among them, as techies who aren’t quisling scum). That smiley is pretty much exactly the same tone that you’d see in a presentation at any of the hacker cons, it’s just that this one happens to concern a gigantic project by an unaccountable clandestine agency, rather than some guy cleverly haxxoring a Cisco IP phone or something.
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