Its inexorable, the systems were designed for maximum uptime and repair of routing rather than security. We'd have to start over from scratch to fix the systemic vulnerabilities. But it is too late.

Also, if the NSA TAO was not doing these things, someone else would, because it offers too many advantages. Not that I approve of their behavior, I just like to think I understand it.

This isn't really worth posting, Kaspersky already inferred that Equation Group is the NSA or some form of government intelligence agency.

Impossible to do it any other way, code obfuscation to foil reverse engineering is still in its infancy.