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Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony... by imbnwa on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:45AM (#28392699)
> Foreign intelligence services are certainly doing a lot of crap online but it's not clear whether they've actually accomplished anything.

Isn't this just the ol' "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" problem? Hundreds of years of ago we couldn't see germs with a microscope doesn't mean they weren't effective in our lives.

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Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony... by idle_zealot on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:51AM (#28393609)
> we couldn't see germs with a microscope doesn't mean they weren't effective in our lives.

And because we couldn’t see them we misattributed their effects and treated people with bloodletting. Confidently declaring your understanding of an unseen enemy and applying seemingly-appropriate countermeasures is likely to be harmful.

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