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>If the CIA has dedicated manpower to fucking with the Notepad++ dev so that HN could see it and think critical thoughts about the Chinese... then I think they
by joecool1029 7y ago
>If the CIA has dedicated manpower to fucking with the Notepad++ dev so that HN could see it and think critical thoughts about the Chinese... then I think they might have some misplaced priorities.
I mean... the CIA did fuck with Notepad++ in the past: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968090.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968090.html
- Freak_NL 7y agoMore specifically: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/13415/v7-3-3-fix-cia-hacking-notepad-issue https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/13415/v7-3-3-f... The CIA replaced a DLL dependency of Notepad++ with a hijacked version on compromised Windows systems.
- creshal 7y agoThe dependency is used in a lot of Windows software too, it wasn't even targeted at Notepad++ specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software)
- ryanlol 7y agoFucked with their own Notepad++ installation yeah, but that certainly doesn't affect the devs.