Because the intelligence agencies ARE the terrorists here. All of the hacking tools are their tools. They're are buying the 0days; they're hiring the best programmer in the world. You don't fuck them, they fuck you any day without you even noticing.
Why hasn't any crazy shit happened yet?
It hasnt yet begun.
because we don't have cyberbrains yet
Why are you calling the (((Intel))) backdoors "bugs"? Do you think it's an accident?
Whoevers getting hacked is paying the bribe money rather than dealing with the PR fallout?
I try not to be specific on such matters and leave my opinions aside. Bugs seemed like the word at the moment. Diplomacy habits. I know some are intentional design flaws. But given my experience with architecture design and the dumb Intel engineering models and choices, plus the excruciating painful mediocrity of their teams who come up with shit like KNF, KNC, KNL and other x86 attrocities, bugs are also likely.
Management Engine, that's not a bug. Cache side-channel attacks, that's a security bug.
Just because you don't haer about it, it doesn't mean it isn't going on. If you close your eyes and can't see something, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Amen
A hack that goes undetected is much less likely to result in an anal circumference roll for the hacker.
cyber... terrorism?