Its nice to see, that once you talk from the point of a Software security person, you see the fiction from what it is. Fiction.
I do not think you would answer different, but your recent comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094408 showed an identical speculative narration as in this article. Speculations that portraits a good-versus-evil narrative.
Reality is indeed messy and incomprehensible, which is why it do not need all that additional speculations. Talking about Russian intelligence, China agents stealing documents, and Snowden providing wholesale access to intelligence services is simply fiction until more details is reveled. Nothing more.
We should all shut up if there is no concrete information to talk about. I agree there.
Now, if some authentic documents are leaked, those can and should be discussed if they are related to the interest of HN readers. They are after all by by definition, authentic and thus no longer speculations.
I do not think you would answer different, but your recent comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094408 showed an identical speculative narration as in this article. Speculations that portraits a good-versus-evil narrative.
Reality is indeed messy and incomprehensible, which is why it do not need all that additional speculations. Talking about Russian intelligence, China agents stealing documents, and Snowden providing wholesale access to intelligence services is simply fiction until more details is reveled. Nothing more.