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Re:Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a coun... by bhouston on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:20PM (#26593897)
It doesn't say "US government", it says "the hackers in question were working for a US ally", which makes it even more complex.

It was likely if it was counterterrorism this is about a Middle-Eastern ally, such Israel or Saudi Arabia?

Neither of these are always US allies, only sometimes.

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Re:Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a coun... by egwor on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:44PM (#26594188)
I think you made a jump there. This could equally be one of the other in the Five Eyes group e.g. Canada, Uk, Australia, NZ.
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Re:Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a coun... by cycomanic on Friday March 26, 2021 @01:30PM (#26594720)
Well and for all the "legal oversight" much of the five eyes operations seems to have been designed around economic advantages, circumventing the rules about spying on your own citizens (it's not us who is doing the spying, it's the Australians). So I'm not sure if it being a five eyes operation makes it better or worse.
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Re:Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a coun... by finiteseries on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:51PM (#26594263)
Denmark, the Netherlands, France, and Germany are also all well equipped for this sort of thing and are as close of allies as you can get outside Five Eyes (DK/NL especially).

The Dutch were the ones who originally warned of interference in the 2016 election IIRC and had access to Cozy Bear for a while before that.

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Re:Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a coun... by joe_the_user on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:34PM (#26630056)
There's no "jump". The poster simply raised one hypothetical to consider. "Could be anyone", right?
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Re:Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a coun... by dirtyid on Friday March 26, 2021 @01:07PM (#26594455)
More likely domestic counter terrorisms under FVEY. I don't know about Google, FB has called out Israeli and Saudi influence before. I imagine only Anglo countries gets default hush hush privileges.
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