[catalogia]

If the CIA has dedicated manpower to fucking with the Notepad++ dev so that HN could see it and think critical thoughts about the Chinese... then I think they might have some misplaced priorities.

The far more likely explanation is that this is organic.

Edit: I stand corrected. Wow.

[joecool1029]

>If the CIA has dedicated manpower to fucking with the Notepad++ dev so that HN could see it and think critical thoughts about the Chinese... then I think they might have some misplaced priorities.

I mean... the CIA did fuck with Notepad++ in the past: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968090.html

[Freak_NL]

More specifically:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/13415/v7-3-3-f...

The CIA replaced a DLL dependency of Notepad++ with a hijacked version on compromised Windows systems.

[creshal]

The dependency is used in a lot of Windows software too, it wasn't even targeted at Notepad++ specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software)

[ryanlol]

Fucked with their own Notepad++ installation yeah, but that certainly doesn't affect the devs.