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> unsupported by evidence

Depending on what you accept as an evidence, but this theory is surely supported by precedent(s?) [0]

Just saying “another conspiracy theory” is a cheap shot : conspiracy are bad and should be fought. Theories are a useful process to make knowledge advance. Conspiracy theories are often discussed in an awful way on social medias, can’t HN do better than just downvoted them ?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal...

This guy is still around on 4chan:

https://twitter.com/4chan_greentext/status/84511828265908224...

See this is a great example of the problem.

1) Did NSA modify Cisco routers? Yes

2) Did NSA get a backdoor in Dual EC_DRBG? Yes

3) Did NSA get a backdoor in the CNSA algorithms? There is no evidence to suggest they have and plenty the other way.

The original claim was (3) but the "NSA does stuff" thing overrides any attempt at discussion of that specific piece of misinformation.