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I think these guys probably have better things to do, and suggesting that they would spend any significant effort on this forum is egotism and hubris of the wor
by w_t_payne 13y ago
I think these guys probably have better things to do, and suggesting that they would spend any significant effort on this forum is egotism and hubris of the worst sort.
Of course, you can never rule anything out in it's entirety ...
- ddp 13y ago...better things to do? You mean, like playing World of Warcraft?
- gault8121 13y agoYeah seriously, if the NSA sent a team of agents into WoW and Second Life it'd be absurd to think that they wouldn't monitor HN. http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/09/nsa-spying-world-of-warcraft-xbox-live/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/09/nsa-spying-world-of-warcraf...
- dangero 13y agoI was not suggesting that Hacker News is particularly special. I think it's probably naive knowing what we know now to believe that the largest information intelligence organization in the world does not use part of its resources to monitor and guide discussion related to sensitive topics such as random number generation back doors. More what I picture is that they filter the web for conversations happening of relevance and go from there. Hacker News could be one of 10,000 sites they monitor for such conversation. Private companies do similar things, so why wouldn't the NSA?