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by alexandercrohde·9y ago·view on hn ↗
No. It is a counter argument.

When the US can destroy Uranium centrifuges in Iran [1] with a virus that got distributed through several 0 days in thumbdrives, that is extreme coordination that means the organization has extreme power. The type of power that, if it got into the wrong hands, could hack and undermine faith in the stock market (or banks).

When the NIST proposes an encryption algorithm, but it turns out there's reason to believe [2] that they designed an algorithm with a complicated mathematical backdoor, that is coordinated.

When Jason Bourne came out we thought it was a dystopian thriller. Turned out to be a playbook.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG