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Re:Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Exploited Flaw in Windows by empath75 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:38AM (#12855162)
It's funny how conspiracy theories take more evidence that they are wrong as evidence that the conspiracy is bigger than they thought. So now, it's a bunch of us intelligence agencies, the wall street journal, the democratic party, several unrelated it security companies, microsoft and google that are all trying to frame the russians?
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Re:Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Exploited Flaw in Windows by 13years on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:47AM (#12856018)
Just like there was no conspiracy to frame Iraq as having WMDs or being responsible for 9/11? I mean, all of NATO was on board, they couldn't have possibly been wrong.
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Re:Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Exploited Flaw in Windows by dvtv75 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:09PM (#12859862)
So, because that conspiracy theory adopted some very well known (at the time) correct elements, then this one is also correct?

Then how about these: because Iraq was framed as having WMDs, then the Titanic was actually the Olympic rebadged and sunk as insurance fraud. The Moon? Man didn't walk on it, that's just an American lie because no WMDs. It's also a hologram, because Iraq didn't have WMDs!

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Re:Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Exploited Flaw in Windows by 13years on Thursday November 03, 2016 @09:55AM (#12863931)
Nothing else you mention has a documented history of government non transparency.

Foreign policy on the other hand continues to reveal events that occur not as they were originally described.

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Re:Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Exploited Flaw in Windows by Roritharr on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:42AM (#12855207)
It's not a conspiracy theory to say that solid attribution of cyber attacks is practically impossible.
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Re:Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Exploited Flaw in Windows by BoringCode on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:07AM (#12855510)
There are other kinds of intelligence besides computer forensics. So, attribution is not impossible if you are a nation state with other resources.
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