Author Chris Hamby with BuzzFeed is not a bad journalist but this is not journalism. It is more likely industrial disinformation for political gain riding on the back of Russian fear mongering. I know nothing of code and neither does Hamby, so correct me if I am wrong but little code is not derivative of other code, to the point that most experts don't really know how computers and software works anymore, they just work. Using the democratic party committee email clients who used stupid passwords like "password" and the richly endowed but incompetent Department of Homeland Security and the TSA who do stupid shit that doesn't work all the time as example of spy detecting brilliance does not make me a true believer in this conspiracy theory. Neither does reporting a big corporations incestuous relations with other big corporations, using each others shit, demonstate a diabolical Russian conpiracy. It may point to a big flaw in software integrity moving forward which is for coder to figure out.
Please any Coders out there...Give this article the smell test and see if you agree that its central message is "Be very afraid ... the Russian hackers are coming" yet offers little else.
FBI Software Contains Russian-Made Code That Could Open a Back Door for Kremlin Hackers, Whistleblowers Say:
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