Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters

Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by catalogia on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:54AM (#21395441)

If the CIA has dedicated manpower to fucking with the Notepad++ dev so that HN could see it and think critical thoughts about the Chinese... then I think they might have some misplaced priorities.

The far more likely explanation is that this is organic.

Edit: I stand corrected. Wow.

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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by joecool1029 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:22AM (#21395555)

>If the CIA has dedicated manpower to fucking with the Notepad++ dev so that HN could see it and think critical thoughts about the Chinese... then I think they might have some misplaced priorities.

I mean... the CIA did fuck with Notepad++ in the past: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968090.html

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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by Freak_NL on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:49AM (#21395682)

More specifically:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/13415/v7-3-3-f...

The CIA replaced a DLL dependency of Notepad++ with a hijacked version on compromised Windows systems.

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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by creshal on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:12AM (#21397293)

The dependency is used in a lot of Windows software too, it wasn't even targeted at Notepad++ specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software)

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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by ryanlol on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:13AM (#21397297)

Fucked with their own Notepad++ installation yeah, but that certainly doesn't affect the devs.

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