There are multiple companies in the industry where you could get interns to build a project like this. Implantation (what we used to call "rootkit") tech is more interesting than banking trojans from a technical perspective, and at the very high end can reach the level of generating new research results --- but this isn't that level.
People continue to be enthralled by low-on-the-food-chain software security work. There are teenagers that have written stuff like this. It's sort of embarrassing that the CIA commissioned this at all (if that's how it happened), rather than pooling with NSA and getting a proper, reconfigurable, deniable tool built.
(But then: leaks of NSA tooling in the last 2 years have demonstrated that we've all been a bit generous regarding NSA's technical reputation, too).
Virtually everything that Wikileaks has published about the CIA has been like this. To the extent that it damages national security, it does so by making CIA look clownish. And yet, despite the extraordinarily low stakes of publishing, Wikileaks is still milking a drip-drip from the original cache they obtained of CIA warez. It's cynical, and speaks to a general contempt they have of their audience.
People continue to be enthralled by low-on-the-food-chain software security work. There are teenagers that have written stuff like this. It's sort of embarrassing that the CIA commissioned this at all (if that's how it happened), rather than pooling with NSA and getting a proper, reconfigurable, deniable tool built.
(But then: leaks of NSA tooling in the last 2 years have demonstrated that we've all been a bit generous regarding NSA's technical reputation, too).
Virtually everything that Wikileaks has published about the CIA has been like this. To the extent that it damages national security, it does so by making CIA look clownish. And yet, despite the extraordinarily low stakes of publishing, Wikileaks is still milking a drip-drip from the original cache they obtained of CIA warez. It's cynical, and speaks to a general contempt they have of their audience.