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Conspiracy theory time: deliberate acts to provide Casus Belli for American invasion. Along the lines of Colin Powell's vial of anthrax at the UN or the "baby incubators" statements from a Kuwaiti princess a decade earlier. The article states "closely allied with Russia" and the current establishment desires to punish anyone who doesn't distance themselves from Russia. The emails might be nothing sensitive to the sta…
Why would the US want to invade Mali?
@dang.... should probably correct the title to say Typos vs Typo The current title implies that its a single keystroke misconfiguration that is causing this when instead it's lots of people just not typing the e-mail correctly.
That said, this is the original title and it makes sense to me—it's a single typo repeated many times over.
@dang.... should probably correct the title to say Typos vs Typo The current title implies that its a single keystroke misconfiguration that is causing this when instead it's lots of people just not typing the e-mail correctly.
@dang is a no-op, you need to email hn@ycombinator.com to recommend a change. That said, this is the original title and it makes sense to me—it's a single typo repeated many times over.
Not sure much can be done here short of the US Government hijacking the .ml domain altogether via ICANN, which, if even achievable, would probably cause worse side-effects than the leaking of low-grade intelligence to Mali. Probably the best partial mitigation would be to make it a condition of doing business with the military to put a blocker on all emails to .ml domain, and for all partner militaries to do the same…
A temporary solution would be to block all traffic of email to ml domain on computers and vpn used by the military and respond with an error. If anyone outside military computers and emails is sending such classified information this is a bigger problem and not just a typo issue. Update: missed the part that this is incoming emails problem from non military.
Conspiracy theory time: deliberate acts to provide Casus Belli for American invasion. Along the lines of Colin Powell's vial of anthrax at the UN or the "baby incubators" statements from a Kuwaiti princess a decade earlier. The article states "closely allied with Russia" and the current establishment desires to punish anyone who doesn't distance themselves from Russia. The emails might be nothing sensitive to the sta…
If .mil is typoed to .ml (Mali), I suppose it's also typoed to .il (Israel), but I imagine that worries the DoD less.
Israel conducts a large amount of spying on the USA and exports a large volume of military tech to China, but for domestic political reasons the DoD likes to ignore them as a threat.
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@dang is a no-op, you need to email hn@ycombinator.com to recommend a change. That said, this is the original title and it makes sense to me—it's a single typo repeated many times over.
I also read it like they did but at the same time this granularity of title management doesn’t make sense since it wastes time optimizing for people who want to comment without reading the article.
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I also read it like they did but at the same time this granularity of title management doesn’t make sense since it wastes time optimizing for people who want to comment without reading the article.
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