NSA Involvement Speculation

Comments joke, speculate, or debate about the NSA's potential involvement or responsibility for the article's subject, often with sarcasm and tinfoil hat references, alongside rebuttals denying any connection.

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Sample Comments

iancarroll Feb 22, 2014 View on HN

Yet another it-must-be-the-NSA comment.

spydum Jan 11, 2014 View on HN

Surely the NSA has nothing to do with this...

coldcode Aug 9, 2016 View on HN

Some at the NSA is having a bad day reading this.

tedunangst Aug 13, 2015 View on HN

What shouldn't we forget about _NSA?

eli Sep 10, 2013 View on HN

Do what? This really doesn't have anything to do with NSA.

meatbyproducts Oct 11, 2016 View on HN

The NSA doesn't want them to...

spiritplumber Sep 6, 2014 View on HN

Isn't that what the NSA does?

madaxe Nov 16, 2013 View on HN

You know the NSA are part of the US gov't, right?

smacktoward Jun 9, 2015 View on HN

I bet the NSA is asking for it!

Taniwha Dec 20, 2018 View on HN

I bet that's the NSA's (public) company line