Claim

National Security Agency USES zero-day exploit

The NSA later added budget to buy exploit capabilities from outside sources and is said to have purchased vulnerabilities externally.

Episode
EP 98 — Zero Day Brokers
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
96% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Nicole Perlroth
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“there was a line item added to their black budget, and it wasn’t very big; it was something like $25.1 million to buy these capabilities in 2013. We know that they have purchased these vulnerabilities from the outside.”

Nicole Perlroth · offsets 32182–32401

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:12:15.684596+00:00

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