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Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7 by pbhjpbhj on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:40PM (#17378097)
The IRC logs in the papers linked in this thread make the suspect out to be an imbecile -- discussing highly illegal activity in plain text using the most obvious keywords ...?
Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7 by jumper_F00BA2 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:25AM (#17379851)
Not to mention... searching... Google?

Really.

Does that sound like something anyone would ever expect to return fruitful results enabling criminal activity? Does anyone imagine this being the sort of thing a person operating an encrypted server would do either deliberately or inadvertently? And what would it even mean, to have that in Google search logs?

Here on HN, to most of us, figure it means less than nothing. On some level, it might actually harm the authenticity of the prosecution's technical credibility.

I'd imagine the goal of the prosecutors though, is to select the most technically inept grandmas, to pack the jury with.