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Comment by campuscodi | Hacker News Reader

Hey,

I'm the ZDNet reporter who wrote the story.

What in God's green earth are you talking about?

The article says the hacker's server is rented from an Iranian company. And yes, despite your ignorant claims, the IP address is the C2 server.

What imagined propaganda are you talking about?

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Like I said, the 14 yo lives and originates in Europe. Cashdollar told so. Yet you fail to mention that and, despite the whole world knowing how explosive the political situation between the US (where YOU originate) and Iran is at the moment, you selective only mention Iran and no other country.

So yeah, factually correct maybe, but very biased by selective editing. That's textbook propaganda. If you don't see that you're part of it.

Regardless of the importance of the Iranian IP to the operation, it is of very little significance to the story. Mentioning it only really serves to act as clickbait for people who don’t understand that it’s possible to stand up a server anywhere in a few minutes, and who are predisposed to think that an Iranian IP makes everything extra ominous.

The Iranian IP is important because it means its unlikely that we'll ever get any data from the server. If it was in the US or EU, its much more likely we could subpoena it and figure out more about whats going on.

I read the article a few times and I don't think there is any anti-Iran sentiment in it at all.

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