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"Also I like how everything is now being blamed on hacking, a freaking atomic clock that was launched on top of rocket into space fails and it's Russian hackers."

The only mention I see anywhere of blaming hackers (Russian or otherwise) is VLM 3 comments up from you. It's certainly not in the linked article. Am I missing something?

I'm sure that actual Russian hackers would like to be perceived as people who can hack an atomic clock in space with no connection to earth :-) Such a feat would demonstrate some fairly elite skills would it not?

> and it's Russian hackers.

Seems to be the goto scapegoat for catastrophic failures, technical or otherwise.

Russian hackers made my coffee pot overflow this morning.

When someone comes up with some conspiracy theory or someone suspecting my code to do something really weird I always try to imagine what it would take to actually pull it off. Let's say hackers really did this, how could you do the same if you really wanted to? Often it turns out you simply couldn't do it even if you wanted to.