> Can anyone tell me why the two codenames are so similar? It would seem that they're wildly different exploits.
A previous article, "How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware" [0], linked to "a classified list" [1][2] of the various "QUANTUM*" programs entitled "There is More Than One Way to QUANTUM".
If I'm understanding your question correctly, the table in [1] and [2] should illustrate the (similarities and) differences.
A previous article, "How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware" [0], linked to "a classified list" [1][2] of the various "QUANTUM*" programs entitled "There is More Than One Way to QUANTUM".
If I'm understanding your question correctly, the table in [1] and [2] should illustrate the (similarities and) differences.
[0]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/12/nsa-pl...
[1]: (TS/SI) https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1076... (PDF)
[2]: (TS/SI) http://i.imgur.com/ZxVAnju.png (a screenshot of the slide in [1], for those who may prefer to avoid PDFs)