Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
NSA invents weak (Back Door present) crypto algo.<p>Pushes RSA to make it a Default in a key function (RNG) by giving them $10 Million.<p>NSA points to RSA as an early adopter and gets NIST to certify it.<p>Millions of systems are now protected by an RSA product that the NSA deliberately weakened.<p>Any sufficiently skilled rogue actor can attack virtually any business that uses these RSA products -<p>NSA (Cyber security Command) gets even more money to "Protect" us from said Rogue actors.<p>So all-in-all good investment on their part<p>Edit: Spelling fixed per commenter pointing out the difference between rouge and rogue.  I did imply malicious actors not red-cheeked actors (not that they are mutually exclusive).