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If you're looking for smoking guns in state intelligence matters you either need to not be a civilian or wait 40 years after the event. For everyone else there
by trotsky 15y ago
If you're looking for smoking guns in state intelligence matters you either need to not be a civilian or wait 40 years after the event. For everyone else there is reading between the lines.
- Estragon 15y agoSure, read between the lines, but discounting perfectly benign, more plausible explanations like the one I outlined is silly. (Why would the US hackers tip their hands to the Australian Government, if they got the information from hacking Australian Government computers? That would spark an international incident for no real benefit.)
- trotsky 15y agoPretty out there for a "more plausible explanation" that hackers would be launching attacks from desktop pcs of high level australian government officials. I'm not even sure what you're arguing about - you actually think either a) the US doesn't conduct cyber espionage or b) the US doesn't spy on it's friends?