Claim

DigiNotar breach ATTRIBUTED_TO National Security Agency

Bruce Schneier said the incident may have been the work of the NSA or an exploit of the NSA, based mainly on a leaked document showing NSA access to DigiNotar; the episode characterizes this theory as weak.

Episode
EP 3 — DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye!
Origin
Uncertain
Confidence
78% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
Bruce Schneier

Transcript evidence

“Bruce Schneier, a prominent security expert says it may be the work of NSA or an exploit of NSA”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 20766–20861

“This theory isn’t very strong and has almost no other evidence”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 20962–21024

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-12T17:48:19.939543+00:00

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