Uvah, the way I understood the article you linked here is that those hackers (and everyone else) don't know what these supposed devices look like, but somehow even not knowing, are building countermeasures to defend themselves. 

OK. Makes little or no sense, but that's the hackers (whoever they might be) doing for their own machines, not the NSAs machines.

Just how is that "giving the NSA a taste of its own medicine"?

This is different from any other time how exactly?  hehe........

@Doc:

By reverse engineering those devices it kind of gives the NSA a 'taste', as it were, of what they do to gather info about individuals and their doings and possibly turn it on the NSA themselves and see what they're up to. A distinct possibility I think. 

a "taste of their own medicine" would be when the FSB or GRU would not only leak phone calls about who really shot the people on the Maidan or "fuck the EU" statements, but all their private phone calls as well.

but there's probably a "gentlemen's" agreement not to do that.

i know i would happily send the NSA all my passwords if i'd get their private data in return. they have much more to hide than i do.

put it in after the inspection then.

believing that the NSA isn't infiltrated is naive.

the Russians wouldn't have granted Snowden asylum if the wouldn't already have known from other sources that his claims were true.

Nah, the way to fix the NSA isn't through tampering with their computers.

Nope, you rearrange their plumbing... so their toilets spray instead of flush.

Then when they evacuate the building you sneak in, copy all their data to portable drives and bugger off before they've managed a change of clothes.