re: Quotes Added: Gov related entity hacked reporter's Sharyl Atkinson laptop

mmcgrath, maybe you need to read the full article to gain context and to fit the puzzle together, lets not be four year olds, we can understand exactly what happened if we use deductive reasoning.

( “ A couple questions ” )
1) It's commercial software
2) It's “nonatributable” but also “proprietary”? )

So, by reading the full article you find out this : Atkkinson says the source ( Number One a government employee ) who's connected to government three letter agencies” told her the computer was hacked into by a sophisticated entity that used commercial, nonattributal spyware that is proprietary to a government agency.

Now, let use deductive reasonin: This source is in one of the “three letter agencies” and would know very well what spyware the government uses, and even though it is far better and probably far more expensive spyware than most people or companies have access to, so much so that it can't be tracked/traced, it is probably exclusive to those government agencies, one of which her source is employeed by, so he/she would know this as a fact, in other words whoever sells this spyware, probably sells it exclusively to our government. The two are not mutually exclusive, you can sell something commercially and only to the government, this happens with the military all the time.

As for it being “nonattributable” well that only applies to people outside of the three letter agencies, if you work in one of the three letter agencies, and have used the spyware before you can identify the spyware, even though it was created to be nonattributable.


Then you say there is no specific allegation in any direct quote.

Not this crap again !!!

“Number one” told her that classified documents were planted deep within her computer. Who, besides government agencies, can or want to plant classified information inside someones computer ? I mean it really takes a naive person not to see what happened to this woman, it strains credulity to deny this.

In your experience with reporters did they have classified government documents placed deep within their files ? Or did they get spyed on by spyware that is only used by our government, as told to her by someone who works in one of these government agencies ?


Remember, this is the same administration who spyed on the AP and tapped James Rosen's, of FOX NEWS, parents phones, and seemed like they were trying to build a case against him.

The government ( Ospyo and company ) are the only people who had an ax to grind with Sharyl Atkkinson, her CBS bosses were getting blowback from the administration, she was getting cursed out by Obama aides, she had classified government documents placed on her computer, she had spyware that only the U.S. GOVERNMENT had access to ( according to an inside source ) on her computer.

Only a naive person can't see what went on here, I don't need semantics thrown at me, I can see a pattern with this administration.

This administration is evil incarnate.