[harry8]

That may have worn thin, nowadays. The average response here would have been described as cynical in the past. The Russia/China scapegoat had been way overused to the point where I'm cynical every time it comes up probably even where it's actually true, one time in a hundred or whatever.

Nobody blames the NSA in these circumstances, ever.

[Hjfrf]

Google did it with an allied op recently. Not NSA, but as close as we're likely to hear about. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021318/google-s...

[elliekelly]

Do we know for sure it was an allied operation? Everything I saw mentioned a “Western government operation” which doesn’t necessarily exclude the NSA.