I 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 inte

I 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?