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I remember that one. They did change the headline in fact. The original version erroneously said Russian Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S.
by jrochkind1 6y ago
I remember that one. They did change the headline in fact. The original version erroneously said
Russian Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hack
They changed "Russian" to "Widely Used"... Oddly the version the wayback machine caches has "Russian" in the headline as well as "based in the Czech Republic" in the first sentence.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210106195835/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210106195835/https://www.nytim...
It is clearly an alarmist "yellow journalism" kind of article, I agree. The headline swap is a bit revealing; they never would have framed the article this way in a similar situation for a U.S. company, even if "may be entry point for huge hack" would be just as accurate.
I'm not sure there is anything technically incorrect in the current version of it though.
Also holy cow is Internet Archive doing god's work, I'm gonna go send em some money right now.
- inglor_cz 6y agoCzech here. JetBrains is really incorporated as a Czech corp., but in the same way that many ships are registered in Liberia. I have some paid licences of JetBrains, I have e-mailed back and forth with JetBrains employees in different positions, and all were Russians.