Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ryanlol 1983 days ago
> These don't sound like things that the Russian government or any nation state would be saying.

Why not? Sharing stolen source costs them nothing, and nation state hackers have budgets just like the rest of us.

They probably wouldn’t even get in big trouble for selling this stuff and using the money to buy themselves lambos, a nice bonus on top of the government hacker salary.

1 comments

>a nice bonus on top of the government hacker salary.

The current narrative is that they aren't on payroll or under orders, but instead individuals or groups within the collective (cozy bear) act on their own initiative to win putin's favor.

>The current narrative

According to whom?