US Security Services May 'Have Moles Within Microsoft,' Says Researcher

Barence writes "U.S. government officials could be working under cover at Microsoft to help the country's cyber-espionage programme, according to one leading security expert. According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure, the claim is a logical conclusion to a series of recent discoveries and disclosures linking the U.S. government to 2010's Stuxnet attack on Iran and ties between Stuxnet and the recent Flame attack. 'It's plausible that if there is an operation under way and being run by a U.S. intelligence agency it would make perfect sense for them to plant moles inside Microsoft to assist in pulling it off, just as they would in any other undercover operation,' he said. 'It's not certain, but it would be common sense to expect they would do that.'"

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Re:When did /. become Infowars?

[jellomizer]

But that is how conspiracies work. The more information you don't have the stronger the evidence that it must be real.
I mean a while back they took a mixed race baby born in a different country, paid the hospital to lie to publish a new paper reports, and an other insider generated false documents to prove he was born in the United States, Pay for a team of actors to say they knew this child when they were children, all in the offshoot that perhaps this child (where the culture at the time figured had near 0 chance of major success in life) would become president and support the Socialist Cause....

The facts are... Well some of the people who knew him as a kid called him a more anglo saxon nickname which is very close of his real name.