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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by AndrewKemendo on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:22AM (#19115681)
There are many reasons why these devices persist not only in DC but all across the country.

One is resource management and risk evaluation (aka, there are bigger problems), another is knowledge of FIS operations and many others...

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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by jessaustin on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:32AM (#19115818)
We got from "total fabrication" to "resource management" pretty quickly...
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by AndrewKemendo on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:43AM (#19115976)
Incorrect inference.

You've incorrectly attributed the argument from a specific offshoot (that foreign spy tools persist because of limited counterintelligence resources) and applied it to the root supposition (that nation states utilize parallel construction, through a conspiracy with known adversaries as a matter of course and that spy infrastructure is built specifically for that purpose).

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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by jessaustin on Friday February 08, 2019 @12:01PM (#19116224)
I would quibble with "known adversaries". Saudi has been a close ally of both UK and USA for nearly 30 years. Haven't Snowden's materials proved the point for the rest of the root supposition already?

Of course it's more likely that someone (anyone, really) just pwned Ms. Sanchez's phone directly.

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