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