Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons • Hacker News Board

Re: Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons

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Post by zigzigzag » Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 11:50 AM UTC

doktrin wrote: post #77

zigzigzag wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

paradite is saying it's not well documented. It's poorly documented by people highly incentivised to lie. But hey, if you already wrote off anyone who disagrees as "delusional or paid shills" then you're too far gone to reason with. Literally nothing anybody ever says can make you think twice.

> poorly documented Uh huh https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_from_Olgino https://themoscowtimes.com/news/st-petersburg-troll-factory-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-... https://www.inopressa.ru/article/03Jun2014/buzzfeed/web_rus.... https://globalvoices.org/2015/04/02/analyzing-kremlin-twitte... > if you already wrote off a…

Both the NY Times and the Guardian seem to hate Russia and all things Russian. I constantly read things in those publications that are ludicrously biased or simply wrong. They don't count as credible sources to me anymore.

And as was already pointed out, you stated that "Russia sponsors" but even the first article states that the alleged project is the work of one guy who apparently has money to burn - not the government.

Re: Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons

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Post by sctb » Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 8:13 PM UTC

oculusthrift wrote: post #135

remember that 1000s of paid russians were used to interrupt our election on sites like reddit. wouldn't be surprised if a few leaked to this site. especially with green accounts.

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Re: Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons

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Post by seppin » Thu, Apr 20, 2017, 9:29 PM UTC

mistermann wrote: post #262

seppin wrote: post #228

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I honestly think HN is the target of some of these trolls as well.

A significant percentage of younger (as well as non-younger for that matter) people have practically no exposure to mainstream media, so naturally one should expect propaganda (from the various players) will be brought to online forums of all kinds.

I feel HN has been specifically targeted as a source of above-average discourse, therefore it must be comprised.