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Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax by jessaustin on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:10PM (#22304761)
Haha ok who's really "trolling" whom? There was an unsubstantiated claim that something had happened in one nation, therefore we can assume it happened in some other nation! Further, we really believe that you really believe those TLA posers were sitting there watching John Podesta tell someone in Russia that his password is "Runner4567", because only Russian hackers would be so clever to phish a genius like John Podesta.

Indictments don't contain evidence. Sometimes they contain rumors of evidence.

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Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax by Seenso on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @12:44PM (#22310876)
>>> Then again, we're talking about DoJ indictments of foreign soldiers for allegedly accessing data that was open to all...

I just noticed that you made a pretty mind-boggling claim there. Is it really your position that Equifax's data was "data that was open to all"?

> There was an unsubstantiated claim that something had happened in one nation, therefore we can assume it happened in some other nation!

No, we can make informed speculation in a discussion. That's quite different than "assuming it [actually] happened."

The main issue here is that you appear to read something, misunderstand or exaggerate it into hyperbole, then respond to your own hyperbole. That's not a good way to have a discussion with anyone.

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Re:Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax by seppin on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @11:05AM (#22309918)
You are working very hard to support my original statement, you didn't read the indictments very closely (or at all).

If you knew anything about cybercrime attribution, you'd know that indictment was detailed far beyond anything we've ever seen from the DOJ. They took the extraordinary step of giving away hints on collection sources/methods just to make the evidence overwhelming and undeniable.

Which was my point, which instead of addressing you keep trying to obfuscate. Because you are a troll.

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