After the unprecedented breach of hacking tools and exploits stolen from the US National Security Agency's elite hacking unit, some privacy advocates see it as clear vindication of Apple in its fight with the FBI earlier this year.
Apple: If we're forced to build a tool to hack iPhones, someone will steal it.
— Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) August 17, 2016
FBI: Nonsense.
Russia: We just published NSA's hacking tools
"The component of the government that is supposed to be absolutely best at keeping secrets didn't manage to keep this secret effectively," Nate Cardozo, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Business Insider.