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Re:New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. ... by OverlordXenu on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:35PM (#18178609)
unless the NSA or another intelligence agency has an insider that could catch that before it made it up high enough to cause trouble. conceivably, someone below the insider could leak to Bloomberg realizing that they have limited options.
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Re:New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. ... by nickodell on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @03:02PM (#18178856)
That seems like a lot of work. What would be the point of that?

If Amazon is being spied on by foreign intelligence, wouldn't the NSA want Amazon to know about it? Particularly since government data is hosted on Amazon's servers.

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Re:New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. ... by Zeklandia on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:08PM (#18179397)
Because now the NSA has a strategic foothold. If they acknowledge the hack, then the adversary will move on to something else. If they don't acknowledge it, they can secretly mitigate it, by feeding false data, for example, and waste the adversary's time.
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