Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
NSA invents weak (Back Door present) crypto algo.Pushes RSA to make it a Default in a key function (RNG) by giving them $10 Million.NSA points to RSA as an early adopter and gets NIST to certify it.Millions of systems are now protected by an RSA product that the NSA deliberately weakened.Any sufficiently skilled rogue actor can attack virtually any business that uses these RSA products -NSA (Cyber security Command) gets even more money to "Protect" us from said Rogue actors.So all-in-all good investment on their partEdit: 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).