NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software

Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by pyre on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @09:11AM (#6801277)

But if a person does not know that the NSA is doing this (and possibly would tell you that they aren't doing it, were you to ask), then is that person being intellectually dishonest in acting like this knowledge is new to everyone?

I think that leveling a claim of intellectual dishonesty at someone who thinks that everyone else was as ignorant as they were is a bit harsh, and sort of inflammatory.

I think that most people would reasonably believe that if there were such strong signals that the NSA was doing this it would be closer to public knowledge than it was.

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Re:NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious soft... by dhimes on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @09:34AM (#6801427)

I don't mean to drag this on forever, but I read the comment differently- as I said in the reply linked below. In short, that person isn't being intellectually dishonest. But the organizations who did know better and are pretending otherwise are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6796335

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