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Re:Linksys CherryBlossom Advisory by joefkelley on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:20PM (#14616555)
Yeah this is a bit worrying. But since it was leaked, this actually doesn't seem so bad. What incentive would the CIA have to lie internally?
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Re:Linksys CherryBlossom Advisory by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:16AM (#14617905)
One good reason I can think of is to have something for leakers to leak that isn't based in reality.

Or: the CIA leaked it intentionally as smoke-screen.

I don't know. Are there organisational silos within intelligence agencies? Layers of access? It's hard to know for sure, but I'm yet to see a human organisation that doesn't have political in-fighting.

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