The NSA is Making Us All Less Safe

• “Insert vulnerabilities into commercial encryption systems, IT systems, networks and endpoint communications devices used by targets”— Sabotage our systems by inserting backdoors and otherwise weakening them if there’s a chance that a “target” might also use them.
• "actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs" — Secretly infiltrate companies to conduct this sabotage, or work with companies to build in weaknesses to their systems, or coerce them into going along with it in secret.
• “Shape the worldwide commercial cryptography marketplace to make it more tractable to advanced cryptanalytic capabilities being developed by NSA/CSS — Ensure that the global market only has compromised systems, so that people don’t have access to the safest technology.
• "These design changes make the systems in question exploitable through Sigint collection … with foreknowledge of the modification. To the consumer and other adversaries, however, the systems' security remains intact." — Make sure no one knows that the systems have been compromised.
• “influence policies, standards and specifications for commercial public key technologies” — Make sure that the standards that everyone relies on have vulnerabilities that are hidden from users.