Claim

Missile Defense Agency USES zero-day exploit

A zero-day seller told Nicole that the Missile Defense Agency bought zero-day exploits.

Episode
EP 98 — Zero Day Brokers
Origin
Attributed
Confidence
91% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Nicole Perlroth
Attributed source
a person who sells zero-day exploits

Transcript evidence

“the Missile Defense Agency I learned played in this market. I had never heard of the Missile Defense Agency until someone who sells zero-day exploits told me that they sold to the Missile Defense Agency”

Nicole Perlroth · offsets 31411–31614

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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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