Because 'the truth of the Bloomberg story' is not important - what matters is 'what's actually happening' in the world. And this kind of hacking is definitely happening irrespective of how right/wrong the Bloomberg report is.

So why are you rambling on about unrelated pet topics in HN threads?

Do you truly believe his point to be unrelated, this isn't a debate about GP's tone?

I think what parent touches on in their "tangent" is indeed the most important thing to come out of this story.

I do truly believe it to be unrelated and veering into attractive-but-unsubstantiated conspiracy territory.

The United States spends 10's of billions of dollars spying on it's enemies. They hack, install spyware, require backdoors, use phishing, social engineering. So does China, Russia etc. and this is not a conspiracy.

It IS a conspiracy.

What you said is not a conspiracy theory.

Ha ha yes, you're right!

I think you mean conspiracy theory.

Of course this event is a conspiracy.