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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Wikileaks reveals the CIA hacking program left electronic trails to Russia
 
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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Ferdinand the Bull posted:

Even the Intercept called this out as the US just repurposing old code by other actors, not some nefarious 4D chess subterfuge.

We literally vacillate between the CIA is understaffed and underfunded to implying that the CIA is behind all the Russian-linked hacking attacks.

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/08/wikileaks-files-show-the-cia-repurposing-foreign-hacking-code-to-save-time-not-to-frame-russia/

Welcome to the world of espionage in the 21st century. Even back in the Cold War, if something happened that had all of the telltale signs of one party, there was always the possibility of another party doing it, just dressed up to look like the first or the first doing it in such a way to give credibility to the idea that the second committing a false flag. (I dunno if this ever actually happened as I'm not a Cold War history buff/historian)

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