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Re:U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to inf... by dxhdr on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:23PM (#12663656)
> taking the statements of the the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security at face value

Frankly, it's hard to do that in a post-Snowden, post-Comey world.

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Re:U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to inf... by grandalf on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:32PM (#12663724)
> it's hard to do that

I'd say it's completely impossible to do that :)

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Re:U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to inf... by marcosdumay on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:12PM (#12664308)
There are some people that, if they told me the sky was blue I'd look around for unexplainable chromatic aberrations.
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Re:U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to inf... by tptacek on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:51PM (#12664181)
For what it's worth, and apropos this thread, I responded to your comment about this issue from earlier this week (sorry it took me so long).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12664172

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Re:U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to inf... by grandalf on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:03PM (#12664608)
Thanks for replying. I don't disagree with any of your conclusions but I'll reply in that thread with a brief comment in a moment.
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Re:U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to inf... by ak4g on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:25PM (#12663666)
Then use your critical thinking.

I'll repeat the question:

> Why would they lie? What gives you reason to think they (not the DNC!) be that colossally stupid?

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Re:U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to inf... by zigzigzag on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:57PM (#12663847)
Because it helps them justify a larger budget?

This is ridiculous. Why would they not lie? The US intelligence community appears to lie reflexively about everything. Why would anyone take their words at face value?

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