Claim

National Security Agency EXPLOITS weak random number generator

The NSA was able to break through a weak random number generator and allegedly pushed that vulnerable system into commercial products.

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

Transcript evidence

“the NSA knew that there was a – that the NSA could break through this essentially weak random number generator”

Nicole Perlroth · offsets 41523–41633

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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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