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Comment by average_r_user

8 days ago

Tinfoil hat mode: "What if" this results from a foreign influence?

But I guess that you don't need to find answers externally when stupidity is a much simpler reason

I've been wondering this myself, not that I necessarily believe it. If they _were_ acting at the behest of a foreign adversary (pick your reason: leverage over an individual because of a targeted campaign, leverage over all of them because of the SolarWinds/Salt Typhoon hack, cash, etc.), how different would their actions look?

  • Sometimes the tool doesn't have to know he's a tool. The Russians use the term "useful idiot".

    They've created the back doors, I'm sure that the Russians and the Chinese are now in the systems the DOGE people broke.