Hacker News Reader

Comment by fidotron | Hacker News Reader

It's actually a combination of warning and bait, and it's not the first story like that nor will it be the last. Picking at the details of it misses the point.

The real question here is who and what it was intended to warn off, and you'll never get a real answer to that.

View on HN

You make it sound like there must be a real high-Level strategic reason behind this. More likely it’s just a low level face-saving exercise. Someone probably spent 10s of millions of Secret Service budget chasing some threatening text messages sent to government officials, and in the end what they have to show for it is taking down a $1 million spam operation. So they hype it as a cyber-espionage threat anyway to make themselves look good.

You have a mind for government work!

The answer to that may be “no one”. The more likely scenario is they exaggerated a mundane crime into an exciting one.

They have all year to do that. The giveaway there is something odd about this is the timing.

The timing is the President went to the UN and this makes leadership look like they stopped a big threat for some attaboys.

> Picking at the details of it misses the point.

I ask god to make the people I bullshit all agree with you about this. Please don't pay attention to the details; in fact, they were probably placed there by our enemies to distract us from the story (that I told you.) In fact, you're a genius, and this goes deeper than even I thought. I'm going to need access to your bank account.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com