NSA Hack Attacks: Good Value For Money?

Leaked operations manual reveals NSA attack techniques that are not significantly better than common cybercrime capabilities, despite their high cost to government

Do the National Security Agencys online espionage capabilities provide good value for money?
Recent reports have disclosed that the NSA uses a fleet of high-latency -- codenamed Quantum -- servers to redirect targeted systems to another fleet of servers, codenamed FoxAcid, that launch tailored drive-by attacks. The agencys malware reportedly targets a range of vulnerabilities, from publicly known flaws to zero-day bugs that only the NSA possesses.
That information comes via former NSA contractor Edward Snowdens leak of top secret documents that detail many of the agencys operating practices. Whats struck some information security experts is just how similar the NSAs techniques are to those of cybercrime gangs and advanced persistent attack (APT) groups sponsored or run by other nations.
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