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In the "Athens" affair, most commentators dismissed CIA involvement saying that if the US gov needed the data, they could just ask.

Well after the investigation went through and some data came out regarding the Vodafone server hack it was clear that the organizations that could pull something like this, there like ... Maybe 5 with CIA the most likely candidate.

So, we like to oversimplify but life is way more complicated.

BTW I think that the Athens affair is one of the top 3 hacking stories that I know of.




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