Excuses perhaps but not scapegoats in the sacrificial sense. Well, not that I'm aware of yet.
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In general, maybe; hack attribution is very unreliable. For the recent high-profile Twitter attack in particular, definitely not; an intelligence agency would never expend that capability or draw that much attention for something as frivolous as collecting a little Bitcoin.
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I could see this: Teenager gets 'groomed' by hacker online and learns how to hack into a system, it's actually an intelligence op. He does a bunch of attention-getting stuff while the intelligence op gains access to the data they need through his own already compromised computer.
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Sort of like FBI entrapment of would be bombers?
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No, but I guarantee you he'll work for them after this
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intel agency psy-op conspiracies are far less scary to contemplate than the chaotic vagaries of human incompetence, indifference, and malice.
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