[Cryptography] Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications

[John Denker]

> Even after they understood that the Russians had compromised the FBI
> teams’ radios, U.S. counterintelligence officials could not agree on
> how they had done it. “The intel reporting was they did break our
> codes or got their hands on a radio and figured it out,” said a
> former senior intelligence official. “Either way, they decrypted our
> comms.”

https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-russia-carried-out-a-stunning-breach-of-fbi-communications-system-escalating-the-spy-game-on-us-soil-090024212.html

Note that code-making (not just code-breaking) is part of the
NSA mission statement ... but apparently is sorely neglected
in practice.

They seem to systematically forget Rowlett's dictum:
  "In the long run it was more important to secure one's own
   communications than to exploit those of the enemy."