Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers

Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by eganist on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:13PM (#21127892)

It took my vouch to un-dead your comment, useful because I couldn't reply to it otherwise. I'm morbidly fascinated as to how the top two comments on this submission were marked dead in the first place, but considering it took a vouch to automatically bring it back to life, there's a hint of a Flag brigade on this thread.

To answer your comment: because the title of the submission "Airbus Suppliers Hit in State-Sponsored Attack" and the title of the article "Airbus Suppliers Hit in State-Sponsored Attack" are identical, and that's totally fine. Changing the title of the submission to include a detail from the article actually editorializes the submission, which is not ideal for HN or the audience here.

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Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by dang on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:20PM (#21131952)

Please don't post insinuations of astroturfing or similar manipulation ("Flag brigade") without evidence. If you're concerned about abuse, please follow the site guidelines and email [email protected] so we can look into it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by eganist on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:34PM (#21132384)

Hm, I didn't bucket flag-brigading into the astroturfing bucket (specifically because they're quite different - one suppresses speech whereas the other purports to be grassroots speech). Your point is well taken, but going forward dang, there's value in adding the "or similar manipulation" qualifier to the current iteration of guidelines:

> Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data.

Hopefully this comment is viewed as both the acknowledgement as well as the constructive feedback it's intended to be.

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Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by dang on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:13PM (#21139804)

For sure it's constructive. I'll see about expanding the wording.

Edit: ok, done. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by jiveturkey on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:21PM (#21127982)

I took the comment to mean, why does the original article's title not have 'Chinese' in the title.

In these days of click-bait "news", it's a valid question.

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Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by yorwba on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:52PM (#21129812)

The user you're replying to has been leaving a trail of dead comments since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150381

If it's marked as [dead] but not [flagged], the comment was killed automatically. No reason to suspect brigading.

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