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Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by TeMPOraL on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:35PM (#11802711)
> Meanwhile there is some belief in chemtrails amongst a few of the younger people I know going on FB group posts I see them share.

Reminds me of a thing I learned here on HN recently. The US was in fact intentionally spraying germs on unsuspecting civilians in San Francisco, among other places, as a part of research related to biological warfare. Turns out there's some grain of truth even in the chemtrails crackpottery.

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Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by giuscri on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @04:05AM (#11805338)
Could you name some reference for the fact please?
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Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @04:20AM (#11805379)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1003703226697496080

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2015/06/28/san...

There was a story with some discussion here on HN that I can't sadly track down via Algolia now. It told about a person that tracked down information about those tests, motivated by death of some relative who was undergoing surgery at the time, and got infected with a germ that shouldn't even be there.

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