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by jcmeyrignac 868 days ago
Why is this considered a "gaffe"? It may be the act of a mole who works at Microsoft as an admin.
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I sometimes wonder what percentage of people from certain countries are posing as regular MS employees, but are actually working on behalf of their country's security service.

Is it 0%? Or more than 0? How much more?

It is definitely a thing that happens: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/former-twitter-employe...

Hard to say how often / what fraction of occurrences are never caught, or caught but never publicized.

I have a friend who doesn’t work for the CIA (wink wink) he takes normal everyday jobs. But he never worked for the CIA (wink)