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Comment by netsharc | Hacker News Reader

Is this a legitimate news site... or is it one of those "Bill Gates spread coronavirus to kill people, the evidence is he said we should reduce population growth rate and we interpreted it as him saying he wants to reduce the population" sites?

The fact that segments are repeated makes me think it's not a reputable site (in case they manage to fix it, screenshot as of the moment: https://i.imgur.com/M2Glm84.png). Also the poster's username on here is very similar to the site name...

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Here’s the news from Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber-...

And there it sounds much less specific: "the bureau had recently seen state-backed hackers poking around."

It's a bit more specific than that.

'FBI Deputy Assistant Director Tonya Ugoretz told participants in an online panel discussion hosted by the Aspen Institute that the bureau had recently seen state-backed hackers poking around a series of healthcare and research institutions.

'“We certainly have seen reconnaissance activity, and some intrusions, into some of those institutions, especially those that have publicly identified themselves as working on COVID-related research,” she said.'

from the referenced report at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/...

It's far from what sciencetechniz.com article claims, and I've quoted the actual words of the person, as quoted in the article, not the interpretations.

But the context for your original reply and also my own reply were to the Reuters article. Also, everything in the opening sentence gloss is literally word for word supported by the very next line, which is a direct quote of the Reuters article which itself is a direct quote from the speaker from the FBI at the conference.

Not to be pedantic, but I honestly don’t know what you are getting at.

Sadly enough, even if the FBI says it you will have to consider how much you trust the FBI first before believing it.

How do you even know "a state" has hacked you and not someone in the public unless you find the hacker(s) in person.

Simply saying you know can accomplish certain goals.

It's so sad and frustrating that I wonder this every time I see a site with a fairly generic WP/Drupal/Whatever CMS theme and not a lot of background on the organization running it. But that's the reality of where the internet is today I guess.

Meme war is hell.

This segment repeating thing.

I see it on news sites all the time, so much so that I am starting to think it's done on purpose, but I can't imagine it does good things for SEO, there must be a penalty for repeat content (I would think)?

Maybe it's just sloppy copy/pasting...

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