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>A good non-NSA agency should also learn from this to be able to effectively false-flag as NSA It seems like such a lapse in tradecraft that, absent other indi
by viccis 2y ago
>A good non-NSA agency should also learn from this to be able to effectively false-flag as NSA
It seems like such a lapse in tradecraft that, absent other indicators, I would just assume it's a crude false flag attempt.
- rdtsc 2y agoIt's a Schrödinger's false-flag! Just incompetent enough to look like a false flag. But at the same time, it's coming from the heart of US bureaucracy, which finds cash to build multi-billion dollar hidden data centers, but is also inflexible enough properly pay for overtime and off-schedule work.
- plagiarist 2y agoI don't find the money inexplicable at all. Building multi-billion dollar data centers increases wealth for billionaires but paying overtime would benefit a middle-class pleb.
- actionfromafar 2y agoWell how convenient those plebs are down-sized right now.
- sitkack 2y agoI heard goldman sachs is scooping up federal talent and putting them on the bench to then rent them back out to 47 for 10x the price.
- nonrandomstring 2y agoWasn't one of the curiosities in Snowden vault7 an "attribution engineering toolkit"? That sounds quite flexible.
- greatgib 2y agoHonestly they might also totally not care about it. They might want to avoid detection while the hack is working but what is the point of covering their tracks after the thing is discovered? It's not like China will sue them, and not like both sides can easily say that it is just reciprocal.