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I seem to be in the minority on Hacker News, but as someone in the professional computer security field I know that any company or state/department/organization can be hacked by a …

We can't really know. There is no way to be perfectly certain. That said one can apply an Occam's calculus using whatever information and reasoning you do trust. I personally trust…

Thank you again for your reply. I am aware of the confusion regarding PRISM and its 'vernacular' use to encompass the activities from other disclosed programs in addition to confus…

The norms in question are those of cyber attacks. This includes but is not limited to intelligence operations. The SONY attack, for example, was not an intelligence operation. The …

Thank you for mentioning international cyber operation norms. This is the center of US international cyberpolicy efforts. Ontologies describing categories of cyber operations often…

The sophistication of the attack is pretty questionable IMO. The malware used can be purchased by anyone on the black market and had been used before by Iranian hackers in 2012. Fu…

I similarly don't see the risk (and collateral damage) v. reward pan out. Plus there are so many legitimate cyber attacks against the United States, it would seem like a waste of r…

Interesting. I had thought it was common knowledge at this point that the US regularly hacks and is hacked by other nations. I think the biggest splash this article may have is add…

I absolutely believe that attacks are used as conveniences to justify legislative wishlists, but question whether such things are planned in advance like you are suggesting or are …

Certainly false flag operations are a tactic that has seen reliable and regular use, especially in counterintelligence. But what purpose exactly would a false flag operation agains…

We know that the NSA tapped into computer systems and the backbone of essentially every country on Earth - I don't see how NK would have somehow been excluded. What's interesting i…

Thanks. From what I can tell you agree with: > there is no encryption for there to be escrowed for large or critical parts of the infrastructure That is to say that TLAs get access…

I agree with the author that in the short game not providing your own accounts is attractive. However in the long game it doesn't look so good. Unfortunately there are problems wit…

- The malware used by the group had fingerprints and components of known Iranian, Korean and Russian malware and is a package sold on black market forums. - The malware used was ne…

> somebody should tell Obama Oh he knows. Lip service to the public about terrorism is just that. > Is anyone going to attempt to argue that encryption facilitates more fraud than …

This is sort of off topic, but it is amusing. I would guess that it is a combination of: - A deemphasis of poetry and literary studies in the concept of being educated and cultured…

It is not about terrorism - it is that technology like this threatens the current level of the capability of the state to enforce its laws. Imagine instead the use of encryption am…

This kind of "privacy" (lack of the existence of institutionalized absolute compelled disclosure to law enforcement and along with broadly cast suspicion less search) was once call…

Oh certainly. State sponsorship of terrorism is regular practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...

Most bad drivers I know are convinced they are 'good drivers'...

James Risen tried to publish it in 2004 but the Times fell to government pressure and refused to make the information public until over a year later (only because Risen threatened …

Time for a proportional representation clause.

> So don't think Iran is the only country on the list, they just trumpet that to dig up thoughts of terrorism oh my. For some reason Americans still overwhelmingly and falsely beli…

> Certainly information from these businesses on how they believe different legislation will effect them is useful to voters, their representatives and their appointees in performi…

It's a sort of an accepted insanity that the positions which these large businesses take are considered important. Certainly information from these businesses on how they believe d…