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Re:Thousands of computers now compromised with leaked NSA to... by freeflight on Sunday April 23, 2017 @11:19PM (#14181722)
>For example, the chairman on the senate intel committee is about to vote for more oversight of $secretprogram.

People's memories are way too short with this kind of stuff because something like this already happened: The CIA hacked the computers of the senate oversight committee responsible for investigating the CIAs record of torture.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spy...

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Re:Thousands of computers now compromised with leaked NSA to... by jessaustin on Monday April 24, 2017 @07:30AM (#14183402)
That's just the time they got caught. We can be sure they do this constantly.
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