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Re:Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization... by creato on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:00PM (#20487646)
I was pretty confused, because the title mentions "FSB", but all of this discussion in this thread is about the US. I literally assumed that FSB must be an acronym for some US intelligence agency I don't know of. Then I went and read the article, and it really is about the Russian FSB.
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Re:Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization... by asveikau on Saturday July 20, 2019 @06:59PM (#20488858)
A bunch of the comments are saying multiple governments and using lots of plurals. If you are reading such comments and assuming they only mean US I think you are misreading.
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Re:Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization... by walshemj on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:53PM (#20487924)
You would have to avoided a lot of media and news not to know what the FSB is
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Re:Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization... by some_random on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:13PM (#20487698)
The majority of people don't read the articles posted, only the titles. Most TLAs are American, so if you don't know what the FSB is then "a US IC org" is a pretty safe guess.
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Re:Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization... by bigiain on Saturday July 20, 2019 @07:57PM (#20489056)
I don't agree. I see that as a very US-centric view of the world.

  ASD
  CSE
  GCHQ
  GCSB
  NSA

  FVEY
(I'm seriously considering getting some of those made as tshirts...)

only one of FVEY is a US IC org. See also Nine Eyes and Fourteen Eyes.

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