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		will4274 on Feb 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplie... This is just how spying works. When you discover a spy, you don't bust it, you feed it select information.

ric2b on Feb 16, 2021 [–]

Sure, but the NSA isn't supposed to be the CIA, it's not a spy agency. Or at least it shouldn't be...

kenneth on Feb 17, 2021 | [–]

Absolutely is. It's an intelligence (i.e. spy) agency under the Director of National Intelligence, specializing in signal intelligence (SIGINT)

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