Yep, it is exactly the same rhetoric, word for word as used in other NSA-praising comments on HN. Posted by a 1-year old account that had exactly 1 comment in their history until today.
To your point, I read the OP and thought to myself that it seemed very familiar, I then checked the details on the user account and feel reasonably confident in thinking that it is a targeted attack. It's just sad that it worked so well.
> To be fair here, the NSA should very well be doing these things, for the purpose of attacking other states.
from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905559
from googling: "this is what the nsa should be doing" site:news.ycombinator.com